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.
!["It used to be one out of three rows [of soybeans] in Iowa were exported to China. Well, it's nothing now," said Iowa soybean farmer April Hemmes. "Lately they've gone to Brazil, and now Argentina."](https://img.apmcdn.org/d8ee0237c75d7f7136cf4ba0942a31b758559995/widescreen/69d941-20250924-looming-tariff-uncertainty-creates-unpredictability-for-u-s-soybean-farmers-webp2000.webp)
