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 4, 2008
Michelle Obama’s style closely watched
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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Dec 3, 2008
Show me the money…
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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Dec 2, 2008
Random recession note…
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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Dec 1, 2008
In case you’ve been wondering…
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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Nov 26, 2008
How bad is it at General Motors?
Pretty bad, apparently….
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Nov 26, 2008
Taking Stock: Health care
Even before the economic crisis, health care has been a pressing issue. Kai Ryssdal talks with economist and health-care expert Victor Fuchs about what we, as a society, need to think about in this very tumultuous time.
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Nov 25, 2008
Just wait for the hearings on this…
It seems that a week after saying he wasn't going to use the other half of the 700 billion dollar bailout package, Treasury Secretary Paulson has…
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Nov 25, 2008
Citi bailout shows depth of toxic assets
In the federal government's bailout of Citigroup, the bank gets another $20 billion of fresh capital, and taxpayers are on the hook for most of the losses from Citi's toxic assets. Kai Ryssdal talks with John Carney of Clusterstock.com about the details.
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