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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

  • In our Weekly Wrap, Kai Ryssdal talks with Fortune's Leigh Gallagher Portfolio.com's Felix Salmon about this week's jobs numbers, the "official" recession, the whip-sawing markets, and the automakers' continued pleas to Congress.

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  • All the economic troubles might have started in the United States, but they haven't ended here. Kai Ryssdal talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen about the global impacts.

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  • Professional sports haven't been immune to problems from the recession. But business-of-sports commentator Diana Nyad tells Kai Ryssdal the sports having the most trouble are the ones with the biggest toys.

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  • To find out how Treasury's mortgage rate-cut plan might come together — or whether it's even possible — Kai Ryssdal talks with Susan Wachter, professor of real estate at the University of Pennsylvania.

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  • There is big buzz about who's going to dress Michelle Obama for the inauguration. To help figure out what that might mean for clothing retailers, Kai Ryssdal talked with Kate Betts, editor-in-chief of Time's Style & Design.

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  • Looking to get yourself a chunk of the bailout? Wondering how to go about it? Vanity Fair's Bruce Feirstein has the form you need to fill out.

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  • Dec 2, 2008

    GM vs. Toyota

    Part of the Detroit bailout debate has been whether GM, in particular, has too many brands….

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  • Scroll down to the end of the NBER announcement on the recession, to where they list the members of the business cycle dating committee and you'll…

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  • The group that gets to decide these kinds of things, the National Bureau of Economic Research, announced today that we're officially in a recession…

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  • Nov 27, 2008

    Two charts…

    One to help you wrap your heads around how much we've all got invested in the bailout pie….

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