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

Nov 19, 2008
Treat homeowners like Donald Trump
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When Donald Trump almost went bankrupt in the '90s, creditors made him give up his credit cards before he got help. Commentator Todd Buchholz says homeowners who face foreclosure have to give up some things too.
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Nov 19, 2008
You’ve been wondering how we’re going to pay for the bailout?
Raising taxes? Nope. Printing more money? Kind of. The way we do that is by selling Treasuries. And guess who's buying.
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Nov 18, 2008
If you’re keeping score
Barry Ritholtz has an interesting table over at The Big Picture: which stock market indices have fallen farthest fastest since their peaks.
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Nov 18, 2008
Not so easy…
Starting a company and successfully running it are once again proving to be two very different things….
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Nov 14, 2008
Taking Stock: She saw crisis coming
In the first installment of our new interview series "Taking Stock," Kai Ryssdal talks to political economist Ann Pettifor about global debt. She's a fellow at the New Economics Foundation in London and author of "The Coming First World Debt Crisis."
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Nov 7, 2008
Financial fallout in a Baltimore ER
Kai Ryssdal is in Baltimore where he spent an afternoon in the emergency room of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He found a snapshot of the local economy there.
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Oct 28, 2008
Show me the money
Just in case you've been wondering which banks have gotten bailout money so far, here you go.
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Oct 28, 2008
Wait ’til Bernanke sees THIS!
You know Iceland's been having problems, right? Banks are failing, the currency's frozen, all kinds of bad things….
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Oct 23, 2008
AIG chief’s new job: Selling assurance
The new CEO at AIG, Ed Liddy, not only has to turn the company around, he's got to deal with some really bad press. Kai Ryssdal talks with him about the challenges ahead in our latest installment of Conversations From the Corner Office.
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Oct 18, 2008
A history of trust and confidence
To better understand the odds we face in the current crisis, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal and historian Sean Wilentz present a short history of high and low points of trust in America's economy.
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