Kai Ryssdal

Host and Senior Editor

SHORT BIO

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 Stories (5,777)

Gap's design blunder and what to do with all those leftover vuvuzelas

Oct 12, 2010
Out with the new, in with the old. Gap does about face on logo redesign. These final notes today. Gap has dumped it's new logo. In other news, d...

Red means you're fired

Oct 11, 2010
This final note today. Getting fired is bad enough, but finding out from a traffic light? File this one under Human Relations horror stories:...

Is that game worth watching?

Oct 7, 2010
This final note today. A true story: I was on my way home last night, listening to my public radio station, when the local All Things Considered...

Did you pay your firefighting fee?

Oct 6, 2010
This final note today, one that is sadly not ripped from the pages of The Onion. For want of a $75 fee, the Cranick family of Obion County, Tenn....

Green v. Green : Environment v. Sales

Oct 5, 2010
This final note today. A lesson in how going green can come with some corporate pitfalls. Frito Lay announced today it's getting rid of the plant...

Open Now: Glittering caves of gold

Oct 4, 2010
This final note today: An observation of what happens when gold hits new highs. $1,313 an ounce today. The thing about this rally is that people...

Architecture in 'a tumultuous age'

Oct 4, 2010
Kai Ryssdal talks to Blair Kamin, architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, about architecture in the post-9/11 world.

An itemized list of what your taxes pay for

Oct 1, 2010
This final note today, toward a more consumer friendly Internal Revenue Service, perhaps The left-leaning think tank Third Way has a new policy...

TIAA-CREF CEO on the future of retirement

Oct 1, 2010
Retirement security has changed immensely since the Great Recession -- it looks now that many Americans have not saved enough. Hosts Tess Vigeland and Kai Ryssdal speak to Roger Ferguson, president and CEO of TIAA-CREF, about the future.
TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson.
TIAA-CREF

Goldman Sachs' PR makeover

Sep 30, 2010
A final note today. This new Goldman Sachs ad campaign is the gift that just keeps giving. Here's another couple from the web that we found. This...