September 3, 1998 - Chris Farrell, MPR senior business and economics editor, presents MPR special report, "Make Change, Not Money: The Power of the Non-Profit Economy."
August 31, 1998 - Chris Farrell, MPR's senior business and economics editor, discusses recent negative activity on the stock market, farm surpluses, Russian and Asian financial crises. Farrell also answers listener questions.
August 12, 1998 - Chris Farrell, MPR’s senior business and economic editor, and Art Rolnick of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, discuss decline on Wall Street and the economy --and the impact on Minnesota. Farrell and Rolnick also answer listener questions.
June 10, 1998 - Former Commerce Commissioner Mike Hatch says the state should hold hearings on the Norwest bank merger. Hatch, who is running for attorney general, says state officials should be alarmed with the bank's merger with California-based Wells Fargo but he acknowledges there's little the state can do legally to stop the merger. Losing a major corporate headquarters always hurts a city's pride and loosens the philanthropic bonds between a company and the local community. Hurt feelings aside, the economic question that matters is what does this move mean for Minnesota business? Will it be harder to borrow the money they need to expand? Will job growth suffer? Will entrepreneur dreams go unfunded? Minnesota Public Radios Chris Farrell reports.
June 8, 1998 - MPR's Senior Business and Economics Editor Chris Farrell talks about the banking industry's latest merger, Norwest Corporation of Mpls, and Wells Fargo of San Francisco. It's a 34-billion-dollar deal and follows on the heels of the First Bank-US BankCorp takeover. Farrell also answers listener questions.
April 30, 1998 - Chris Farrell, MPR's Senior Business and Economics Editor, and V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota Economics professor, examine the stock market and concern of a "the bubble economy." Farrell and Chari also answer listener questions. Program begins with a brief report on definition and example of a “bubble market.”
April 23, 1998 - Joseph Juran is a pioneer in the worldwide quality movement. The 93 year old Romanian-born business guru is folding his Juran Foundation into the University of Minnesotas Carlson School of Management. At the newly renamed Juran Quality Leadership Center, Minnesota Public Radios Chris Farrell talked to Juran about the movements past and likely future. The quality movement has changed the way we work and what we expect as consumers. Early this century, the Bell System tele
April 14, 1998 - MPR Senior Business and Economics Editor Chris Farrell, and State Senator Doug Johnson, who has chaired the Senate Tax Committee since 1980, discuss taxes and the political and financial trade-offs between "fairness" and "simplicity", as well as various proposals to change the tax system. Farrell and Johnson also answer listener questions.
April 13, 1998 - It's the coroprate earnings season again. Starting this week, companies will report their results from the first quarter of 1998 -- and Wall Street will be watching closely. Here's what Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Farrell thinks we can expect.
March 18, 1998 - MPR’s Chris Farrell and economist Arthur Rolnick discuss the potential concerns of deflation and answer listener questions.