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Kai Ryssdal

Host and Senior Editor

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.

Latest from Kai Ryssdal

  • Dec 1, 2010

    Wikileaks’s newest target

    This final note today: Finally a business angle to the Wikileaks story. Forbes magazine posted an interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange…

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  • Nov 30, 2010

    On mailing champagne flutes

    This final note today: A helpful tip as you get those holiday packages ready to ship off to relatives. Whatever you do, don't mark it "fragile."…

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  • Nov 19, 2010

    The value of a dollar

    Kai Ryssdal talks to photographer Jonathan Blaustein about his "Value of a dollar" project, where he photographs a dollar's worth of various types of food.

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  • Nov 19, 2010

    Who’s made the biggest gain in carmaker shares?

    This final note today, a slightly different perspective on the news we started with: the GM IPO. GM shares, as we said, gained about a percent t…

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  • Nov 18, 2010

    GM gets ready to go public

    This final note today, offered in our collective capacity as the owners of General Motors. GM priced its initial public offering this afternoon:…

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  • Nov 17, 2010

    Build your own iPhone and get rich!

    This final note today, couldn't leave you without mentioning Apple. Not the whole Beatles thing. I figure real Beatles fans have already ripped CDs…

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  • Nov 16, 2010

    Quantitative easing isn’t hitting yet

    This final note today, what you might call an addendum to the numbers. For all the talk about quantitative easing there's been — yes, here and…

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  • Nov 11, 2010

    What’s ahead for fiscal reform

    This final note today about the deficit. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform made some news this afternoon. That's the…

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  • Nov 10, 2010

    Today’s gold high not a record

    About those gold prices everybody's been talking about the past couple of days — just in the interests of economic accuracy. $1,400 an ounce at …

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  • Nov 9, 2010

    Happy Birthday (cake), Mr. President

    This final note today. You may have seen elsewhere in the news that today's the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy being elected President. Whic…

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