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Kai Ryssdal

Host and Senior Editor

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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.

Episodes by Kai (5,929)

Make Me Smart | Episode 1143

A revamp for Title IX

Apr 19, 2024
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It's a good time to be an asset owner

Apr 19, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1142

What you need to know about tariffs

Apr 18, 2024
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Will AI be the dot-com bubble all over again?

Apr 18, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1140

What we often get wrong about teens and screen time

Apr 16, 2024
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Slow and steady global growth

Apr 16, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1138

The rise of the (tax) resistance

Apr 15, 2024
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Playing an economic guessing game

Apr 15, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1138

Why owning a car is getting so expensive

Apr 12, 2024
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The subminimum wage for tipped workers is on the table

Apr 12, 2024
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Trading floors feel the pulse of crisis

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 18, 2008
Trading floors all over New York -- at private companies that trade commodities or bonds or pretty much anything else -- have been crazy this week. Kai Ryssdal talks with Tom Digaloma, who runs a government-bond trading desk, about what it's been like.
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NFL doesn't like how profits line up

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 17, 2008
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is warning that the league won't be bringing in as much money as originally predicted. Terry Lefton at the Sports Business Journal got his hands on the commissioner's memo. He talks with Kai Ryssdal.
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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

How'd we get in this mess? A look back

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 17, 2008
Kai Ryssdal takes us back to the point at which the financial markets' problems began -- five years ago when the Fed made it cheap to borrow money and Wall Street took advantage, devising complicated investment schemes that hid their high risk.
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Rest of the world feels America's pain

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 16, 2008
There's been a theory that the rest of the world's economies would keep growing even if the U.S. didn't. After a year of subprime mortgage mess, that theory doesn't appear valid. Kai Ryssdal gets the views of economics professor Robert Dunn.
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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

This week: Big losses and bailouts

by Kai Ryssdal and Amy Scott
Sep 12, 2008
In a few days, Lehman Brothers will still be a going concern or it won't. It's a turn of events that didn't seem likely on Monday when the news was all about Fannie and Freddie. Amy Scott's been following developments this week. She talks with Kai Ryssdal.
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Ike has Texas refineries in its sights

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 12, 2008
Weather forecasters say Hurricane Ike is going to wallop the south Texas coast and its oil refineries early Saturday morning. To find out what that's going to mean for oil and gas prices, Kai Ryssdal talked with economist Ray Perryman.
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Economy slows fashion's creations

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 10, 2008
New York City's Fashion Week is designers' big chance to show off their stuff and hope it sells -- no sure thing in a troubled economy. Kai Ryssdal talks with Kate Betts of Time Style and Design to get her take on the business of fashion this year.
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Our sharp listeners get to the point

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 9, 2008
Kai Ryssdal reviews letters from our listeners about acupuncture, Social Security's disability benefits, David Frum's take on immigration policy, and the correct way to pronounce "nuclear."
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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

Is Fannie or Freddie in your portfolio?

by Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland
Sep 9, 2008
Do your retirement funds have any Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac stock in them? If so, you may want to check how much you've lost. Kai Ryssdal did, and he talks with Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland about the financial hit you might not be aware of.
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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

Lots of questions still surround bailout

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 8, 2008
There's more we don't know about what's going to happen in the mortgage finance market than we do know. To get some perspective on the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Kai talks with Karen Shaw Petrou at Federal Financial Analytics.
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