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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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Moral hazard
Sep 23, 2008
I've always felt that the problem of moral hazard has been exaggerated. But this time, no....
How bad?
Sep 23, 2008
A puzzle about the 1930s is how did a severe recession turn into a Great Depression. Much of the blame rests with the monetary authorities and,...
Economist James Hamilton
Sep 23, 2008
One of the economist bloggers I routinely check is economist James Hamilton at Econbrower. He's an eocnomist at the Ujniversity of California, San...
The new investment banks?
Sep 22, 2008
Now that Wall Street investment banks have disappeared and reemerged as commercial banks are the private equity buccaners like Kohlberg, Kravis...
Tax exempt money market mutual funds
Sep 22, 2008
Question: I have a municipal mm mutual fund with Fidelity. It is spread across all 50 states. The prospectus shows that for instance Lehman is the ...
Barry Eichengreen
Sep 21, 2008
Barry Eichengreen, political economist at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the leading scholars on the Great Depression....
Debt forgiveness?
Sep 20, 2008
I haven't found much of the commentary criticizing the Bush/Paulson/Benanke engineered bailout very convincing. I don't think there is any doubt...
Should we keep Wall Street out of the retirement business?
Sep 19, 2008
Remember the Bush Administration's push to partially privatize Social Security? The privatization advocates warned that insolvency loomed unless...
Getting Personal
by
Chris Farrell
and Tess Vigeland
Sep 19, 2008
Chris Farrell and Tess Vigeland help listeners navigate the murky waters surrounding AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and other ailing financial firms.
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