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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

  • High-cost mutual funds are hazardous to your returns. If everything is equal low-cost funds will outperform high-cost funds simply because of the…

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  • The implosion in the subprime mortagge market is a tragedy. It's terrible for those people that bought a piece of the American Dream with an opaque…

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  • Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones (parent company of the Wall Street Journal) is a classic for him: Audacious and savvy. The offering price is …

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  • Remember when the 9% drop in China's stock market toward the end of February rippled throughout the global economy? Well, it turns out that was…

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  • Apr 30, 2007

    The Modern

    I was in New York on business last Friday. I ended up eating dinner at the Modern, the new restaurant at the Musem of Modern Art. I'm always in…

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  • 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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