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Kai Ryssdal

Host and Senior Editor

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Kai is the host and senior editor of “Marketplace,” the most widely heard program on business and the economy — radio or television, commercial or public broadcasting — in the country. Kai speaks regularly with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, startup entrepreneurs, small-business owners and everyday participants in the American and global economies. Before his career in broadcasting, Kai served in the United States Navy and United States Foreign Service. He’s a graduate of Emory University and Georgetown University. Kai lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children.

Episodes by Kai (6,178)

Marketplace

Raising the roof

Jan 15, 2025
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1311

What Biden is leaving Trump

Jan 15, 2025
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1310

How to live with wildfires

Jan 14, 2025
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Marketplace

"Their job is to make money. My job is to protect America's national security."

Jan 14, 2025
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Marketplace

Fuel inefficiency

Jan 13, 2025
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Marketplace

Port workers and employers restart talks

Jan 7, 2025
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1308

Why anime is everywhere all at once (rerun)

Jan 7, 2025
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Marketplace

What's a dollar worth?

Jan 6, 2025
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1307

Wheelchair rugby’s Chuck Aoki makes us smart about the Paralympics (rerun)

Dec 31, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1306

How Big Food changed the way we eat (rerun)

Dec 24, 2024
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Latest Stories (5,846)

Outgoing Commerce chief: "The only way to win is to out-innovate them"

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jan 14, 2025
Kai Ryssdal does an "exit interview" with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo meets with Marketplace to discuss the Biden administration's economic legacy, including the CHIPS Act, the growth of manufacturing and trade relations with China.
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Los Angeles Wildfires

From satellites to AI, tech has a role to play in battling blazes

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Jan 13, 2025
Kate Dargan Marquis of the Moore Foundation discusses spurring research and development to keep up with the growing impact of wildfires.
Firefighters work to contain the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles County.
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Almost all of the new cars sold in Norway are electric. Here's how the country did it.

by Kai Ryssdal , Maria Hollenhorst and Andie Corban
Dec 19, 2024
Close to 30% of cars on the road and 96% of car sales in Norway are EVs.
Both right- and left-leaning governments have maintained policies incentivizing EV purchases, said Lundgren. Above, several EVs drive on a road in Oslo, Norway.
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I dreamed of a post-PowerPoint world. Then I woke up.

by Kai Ryssdal and Nicholas Guiang
Dec 18, 2024
Every meeting has a PowerPoint, but not every meeting needs one. Matt Alston explains the program's long corporate tyranny.
Jeff Bezos sidelined PowerPoint as a corporate tool at Amazon. But you can buy the program at the site.
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Has the free medical school experiment failed?

by Kai Ryssdal , Sarah Leeson and Sofia Terenzio
Dec 17, 2024
NYU's experience rebuts the idea that tuition-free programs open doors to low-income students, per reporting by Rose Horowitch at The Atlantic.
At NYU, the percentages of Black students and financially disadvantaged students decreased, according to The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch.
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Where did all the manufacturing workers go?

by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio
Dec 16, 2024
Millions of workers lost their jobs in manufacturing. Many never returned to the labor force.
"I think the bigger adjustment that's happened is for the workers that are entering the labor force, if they see all these changes that we're talking about, they can start college with a different mentality," says Matt Notowidigdo of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Would you trust a driverless robotaxi? Waymo hopes so.

by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio
Dec 11, 2024
"It's pretty uniform and impressive how much people just love it," said John Gravios, Senior Editor at Wired, about Waymo, the new self-driving robotaxi.
In November, Waymo opened rides to the public in Los Angeles, California.
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After 40 years at Montana mall, manager prepares to say goodbye

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Dec 5, 2024
The Butte Plaza Mall is in its last holiday shopping season before new owners take over. "It's time to change," says manager Alana Ferko.
On Black Friday, "everybody hit their numbers," said Butte Plaza Mall manager Alana Ferko. New owners plan to make substantial changes at the property.
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Trump's Second Term

This customs broker is prepping for another round of Trump tariffs

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Dec 2, 2024
"We don't have any inside information," says customs broker Gretchen Blough. "So we're just kind of holding hands with our customers."
"We've been getting a lot of phone calls and emails asking if we have any kind of information as to what the tariffs will be on on commodities," says Gretchen Blough of Logistics Plus in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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The key to running Save the Children: supply chain management

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Nov 21, 2024
Janti Soeripto, CEO of Save the Children U.S., discusses the challenges of moving goods and making high-stakes decisions in response to crisis.
"Getting stuff from A to B on time, in full, with good quality, at optimal cost is exactly what is required in this sector," says Janti Soeripto, CEO of Save the Children U.S.
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