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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.

Latest from Chris Farrell

  • Christian Baha is hawking a fund of hedge-like funds for the people called Superfund. The Austrian-based Superfund offers 20 funds, two of them…

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  • Apr 27, 2007

    Reverse Mortgages

    We've been getting more and more questions about reverse mortgages….

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  • Apr 26, 2007

    John Bogle

    John Bogle is the legendary founder of Vanguard, the giant mutual fund company. He's an industry pioneer, and within the mutual fund business…

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  • In the 1980s, companies started retreating from offering their workers traditional "defined benefit" pension plans in favor of "defined…

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  • Apr 16, 2007

    Apartment Rents?

    There still seems to be an expectation that apartment rent prices will rise this year, but I don't buy it. The supply of housing is simply too big,…

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  • Apr 16, 2007

    Money and Politics

    We all know money in politics is disturbing. And about the safest forecast I can make is this: The candidates for the White House will raise record…

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  • I don't think the U.S. Court of Appeals decision striking down on March 30th the "Merrill Lynch rule" has gotten enough attention. It looks like…

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  • Apr 11, 2007

    New Index Funds

    Index funds are boring, right? Not quite. The index fund world is in turmoil….

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  • Apr 10, 2007

    $100 billion LBO?

    The Sunday Express, a British tabloid, reported the other day that a group of Middle east investors and U.S. private equity firms had combined…

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  • From the Alliance for Investor Education. There's a new website that offers investors easy-to-use information on where to check out financial…

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