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.
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Random recession note...
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Kai Ryssdal
Dec 1, 2008
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...
In case you've been wondering...
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Kai Ryssdal
Dec 1, 2008
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...
Two charts...
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Kai Ryssdal
Nov 26, 2008
One to help you wrap your heads around how much we've all got invested in the bailout pie....
Taking Stock: Health care
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Kai Ryssdal
Nov 25, 2008
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.
Just wait for the hearings on this...
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Kai Ryssdal
Nov 25, 2008
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...
Citi bailout shows depth of toxic assets
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Kai Ryssdal
Nov 24, 2008
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.
Here's why Paulson bailed on the TARP...
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Kai Ryssdal
Nov 24, 2008
...or at least the original version of it, that is, buying up troubled assets....
Macy's adapts to the downturn
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Kai Ryssdal
Nov 24, 2008
Retailers are facing grim predictions for meager Christmas-sales growth. Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren talks about how one of the biggest retail chains is dealing with the downturn.
If you've been wondering...
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Kai Ryssdal
Nov 21, 2008
...who's getting how much of the bailout money, the New York Times has a handy-dandy tracking chart here....