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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

  • Question: I will retire at the end of this year but my intentions are to work somewhere else full-time and invest that entire paycheck in something…

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  • A nice savings tool for long-term investors is dollar cost averaging. Technically, dollar cost averaging means putting the same amount of money…

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  • Question: My wife and I are in our early fifties and are planning/hoping to retire in 8-10 years. After using a few of the retirement calculators…

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  • The Future of Life-Cycle Savings & Investing conference at Boston University brings together scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. The…

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  • May 24, 2011

    Parents and money

    Question: My name is Vicki and I am 23 years old. I am married and my husband is currently in grad school. I am employed and am making enough to…

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  • Question: I have always been a very conservative investor (nothing more adventurous than shopping for CD rates). I'm retired and have sufficient…

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  • May 21, 2011

    Gen-X and risk

    Risk matters when it comes to investing. Our guest blogger builds on that key insight. Moshe A. Milevsky is a finance and mathematics professor at…

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  • Question: Recently I've read doom and gloom predictions about the US economy crashing into a depression as bad or worse as the 1930's due to the…

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  • May 20, 2011

    Remember to save

    "Remember to save" is hardly a stirring catchphrase for the college graduating class of 2011. But savings will pay off measured by the financial…

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  • Question: My husband and I have quite of a bit of debt, and we have just had our first child. In addition to a mortgage, we have old credit card…

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