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Chris Farrell

Chris Farrell is economics editor of Marketplace Money, a nationally syndicated one-hour weekly personal finance show produced by American Public Media. Chris is also economics correspondent for Marketplace, the largest business program in broadcasting and chief economics correspondent for American RadioWorks, the largest producer of long-form documentaries in public radio. He is also contributing economics editor at Business Week magazine. He was host and executive editor of public television’s Right on the Money. He is the author of two books: Right on the Money: Taking Control of Your Personal Finances, and Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall. Chris is a graduate of Stanford and the London School of Economics.

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  • Zvi Bodie is a leading finance professor comfortable in the quantatative world of finance theory and practice. Still, he's strongly committed to…

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  • Another Star Tribune Q & A column….

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  • Our economics editor Chris Farrell answers your burning money questions. This week — all about the Thrift Savings Plan, options for getting a mortgage if you want to build a home and if a Health Savings Account is right for you.

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  • This is good news. Clive Crook, the Financial Times' Washington columnist, now has a blog. Crook is an astute commentator on the intersection of…

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  • The stock market is struggling today. But its performance in recent months–including October–is remarkable considering the high price of oil, the…

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  • U.S. ethanol policy urges refineries to mix the corn-based fuel with gasoline to make consumers less oil-dependent. Economics correspondent Chris Farrell tells Scott Jagow why it's a bad idea.

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  • The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is a sleepy agency of state insurance regulators. Their track record isn't exactly stellar. But…

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  • This item comes from Ricardo Hausmann, a guest blogger on the site of Professor Dani Rodrik. For anyone intersted in development economics Rodrok's…

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  • I just got this message from Sibson Consulting, the benefits consulting firm. It's more disappointing news on the wage front:…

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  • James Hamilton, economics professor at the University of California, San Diego and blogger, offers up this chart on the high price of oil. I…

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