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 3, 2010
How toys are surviving the recession
It's holiday season in a down economy. If you wanted to get an indication of how America is doing right now, the world's biggest toy store might be the best place. Toys"R"Us CEO Jerry Storch talks about the role of toys in today's economy.
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Dec 3, 2010
Tax cuts and the World Cup in Russia
Two final notes on the way out today: First, the House passed an extension of the Bush era tax cuts today for couples making less than $250,000….
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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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