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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

  • Oct 1, 2008

    If at first…

    Well, here's the headline from Reuters:Senate Agrees to Vote on Bailout…

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  • Sep 30, 2008

    What happened? And what’s next?

     House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) talks to reporters after the vote failed on the bailout situation on Capitol Hill September 29, 2008 in Washington DC. 
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    The Dow fell a dramatic 777 points today — the worst plunge in two decades — on news that the House rejected the $700 billion bailout plan. Kai Ryssdal asks two members of Congress to help make sense of it all.

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  • Sep 27, 2008

    The Big Story: Bailout plan’s wild ride

    It's been a heck of a week, hasn't it? The deal was on. Then it was off. The economy was collapsing — but not yet, it seems. Kai Ryssdal talks with Katie Benner of Fortune magazine and David Leonhardt of The New York Times about all that's happened.

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  • Sep 26, 2008

    Bailout triggers an earful of anger

    Kai Ryssdal is in Cleveland, Ohio, where he sat in on a radio talk show that fielded calls from listeners about the federal bailout plan. Their anger came through loud and clear.

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  • Sep 25, 2008

    Leading a turnaround in troubled times

    Six years ago, IHOP restaurants were struggling. Julia Stewart was hired to shake things up, which she did. Now, the CEO of DineEquity Inc. has an additional challenge: the troubled Applebee's chain.

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  • Sep 24, 2008

    Frank talk about bailout plan

    After making their case for the $700 billion bailout plan to the Senate banking committee today, Bush administration officials next will go before the House Financial Services Committee and its Chairman Barney Frank. Kai Ryssdal talked with him.

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  • Sep 23, 2008

    Bailout’s rules and processes are key

    With the bailout plan, we're being asked to take what the government's doing on faith. That seems a bit risky with $700 billion on the line. So, Kai Ryssdal called Jay Light, the Harvard Business School Dean, to get his thoughts.

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  • Sep 19, 2008

    Trading floors feel the pulse of crisis

    Trading floors all over New York — at private companies that trade commodities or bonds or pretty much anything else — have been crazy this week. Kai Ryssdal talks with Tom Digaloma, who runs a government-bond trading desk, about what it's been like.

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  • Sep 18, 2008

    NFL doesn’t like how profits line up

    National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is warning that the league won't be bringing in as much money as originally predicted. Terry Lefton at the Sports Business Journal got his hands on the commissioner's memo. He talks with Kai Ryssdal.

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  • Sep 18, 2008

    How’d we get in this mess? A look back

    Kai Ryssdal takes us back to the point at which the financial markets' problems began — five years ago when the Fed made it cheap to borrow money and Wall Street took advantage, devising complicated investment schemes that hid their high risk.

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