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

Oct 14, 2009
Depression diary has recession lessons
A diary written during the Great Depression by a young lawyer named Benjamin Roth is now a book edited by his son, Daniel Roth, and James Ledbetter. The editors talk with Kai Ryssdal about what the diary means for today.
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Oct 14, 2009
How to pick jurors for Wall Street trial?
As jury selection continues in the trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, Kai Ryssdal talks with trial consultant Susan MacPherson about how lawyers pick jurors for such complex and high-profile cases.
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Oct 13, 2009
Marketers can’t find ‘average American’
A study out says we've become so diverse that there's no longer such thing as an average American. Kai Ryssdal talks to demographer Peter Francese, who helped write the report, about the challenge this poses to marketers.
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Oct 13, 2009
Money decisions start in the boardroom
Professor Oliver Williamson, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, talks to Kai Ryssdal about his study of companies and why economic decisions are sometimes better made in the boardroom than in the open market.
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Oct 10, 2009
Finding a way up when you’re down
In Jess Walter's new novel, the protagonist is upside down on his house, out of a job, and a failure at starting a business. But he's got a comeback plan.
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Oct 10, 2009
Weekly Wrap: Examining the collapse
Leigh Gallagher from Fortune magazine and John Carney from Clusterstock.com review the business and financial events of the week with Kai Ryssdal.
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Oct 9, 2009
Los Angeles’ art has imitated its life
John Buntin, who writes about the 20th-century relationship between organized crime and the Los Angeles Police Department in "L.A. Noir," takes Kai Ryssdal on a tour of the city's downtown and points out things that haven't changed much.
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Oct 9, 2009
Who should Tim Geithner be talking to?
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has logged in a lot of phone time with executives from big Wall Street banks. Who else could he be calling? Kai Ryssdal gets some insight from Anil Kashyap at the University of Chicago.
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Oct 8, 2009
Could tax credits help create jobs?
The U.S. is down more than 8 million jobs since the recession started, and the Obama administration is considering giving companies tax credits if they create new jobs. Harvard University economist Greg Mankiw explains to Kai Ryssdal how it might work.
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Oct 8, 2009
NYC threatens to rip Garment District
New York City's Garment District has been a major hub for clothes production for over 100 years. But proposed zoning law changes would open the area up for development. Kai Ryssdal talks to designer Nanette Lepore, who is fighting the changes.
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