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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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Reynold Levy bio

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 25, 2007
CONVERSATIONS FROM THE CORNER OFFICE -- Reynold Levy is president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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If Sox win, the furniture's free!

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 24, 2007
Last spring, a Boston furniture company offered to refund the purchase price of whatever people bought -- if the Red Sox won the World Series. Game 1 is tonight.
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Web 2.0 has Internet money flowing again

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 24, 2007
Microsoft has announced it's going to buy 1.5% of the social networking site Facebook for $240 million -- beating out Google for the prize. Kai Ryssdal did some networking with venture capitalist Todd Dagres, asking him to size up the deal.
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Doing legal battle with terrorism funders

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 23, 2007
The Bush Administration has had a difficult time fully prosecuting organizations accused of financing terrorism. Kai Ryssdal talks with Dennis Lormel, who ran the FBI's terrorist financing task force, about uncovering these funding networks.
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More than a daily dose of Jon Stewart

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 18, 2007
How does a television company get around its clips being posted on YouTube? Viacom has a solution that even The Daily Show might not poke fun at. Well...
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Ready for some football, rugby style?

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 18, 2007
England and South Africa will scrum it up in the final of the Rugby World Cup this weekend. Marketplace business-of-sports analyst Ed Derse talks with Kai Ryssdal about what's in play.
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Tabasco not such hot stuff anymore

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 17, 2007
The spicy red sauce created by the McIlhenny family isn't as hot a market leader as it once was. Jeffrey Rothfeder, who has written a book about the product and the family, explains to Kai Ryssdal.
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Slow growth, less foreign money ... Worry?

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 17, 2007
The Fed says growth has slowed almost everywhere in the nation. And the Treasury Department says foreign investors are pulling their money out of U.S. markets at a record pace. What's this mean? Kai Ryssdal got the views of Alec Young of Standard & Poor's Equity Research.
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Guinness popularity yet to reach a head

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 16, 2007
What makes Guinness beer such an integral part of pubs worldwide? Writer Bill Yenne talked to everyone from its master brewer to pubgoers and put their thoughts into a new book. He shared some of them with Kai Ryssdal.
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Our listeners talk back

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 16, 2007
Kai Ryssdal reviews listeners' concerns about NHL hockey, poker, logging, "supremely ugly" clothing, scuba diving and -- oy! -- is it Yiddish or Hebrew?
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