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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 (5,939)

Make Me Smart | Episode 1153

Europe's new economic engines

May 3, 2024
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Why government benefits are likely to stick around

May 3, 2024
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Breaking Ground: Where are all the jobs?

May 2, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1152

No "stag" no "flation"

May 2, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1151

The rising pressure on poll workers

May 1, 2024
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Breaking Ground: The plants were there first

May 1, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1150

The trade-offs of the trade deficit

Apr 30, 2024
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Breaking Ground: A visit to the "Silicon Desert"

Apr 30, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1149

Biden's regulation rush

Apr 29, 2024
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Keep on truckin'

Apr 29, 2024
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Week on Wall Street

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 27, 2007
Stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson talks with host Kai Ryssdal about Wall Street's wild week and what may lie ahead.
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Ford profits make a U-turn

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 26, 2007
Ford reported its first quarterly profit in two years today, surprising most analysts. Kai Ryssdal talked to The New York Times' Micheline Maynard about what allowed for the automaker's good news.
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Beyond 'Moby Dick'

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 26, 2007
Before crude oil, there was whale oil. Kai Ryssdal sits down with Eric Jay Dolin, who talks about the American whaling industry in his new book.
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Farm subsidies as seen from the farm

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 26, 2007
With the House considering a multibillion-dollar farm bill this week, we sought out the view from the tractor. Kai Ryssdal talks with Georgia farmer Stephen Houston.
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Credit market tightens on lenders

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 25, 2007
The bankers in the Chrysler sale say they aren't going to be able to sell off loans Chrysler's arranged in the deal, due to a credit-market squeeze. Kai Ryssdal talks to an executive in the credit market about what's going on.
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What did we say?

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 24, 2007
Kai Ryssdal hears from listeners about the origins of modern-day advertising, working with overseas vendors and ethical concerns about killer robots.
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Absolutely, positively a global economy

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 24, 2007
Globalization has played a large part in the strong growth of United Parcel Service. Kai Ryssdal talks with CEO Michael Eskew about how the business has changed, and how in many ways it will always stay the same.
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Week on Wall Street

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 20, 2007
Stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson talks with host Kai Ryssdal about Wall Street's record-setting week and what may lie ahead.
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'Mad Men' explores advertising's heyday

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 18, 2007
Kai Ryssdal talks with Matt Weiner, creator of "Mad Men," a new TV show set in the 1960s advertising world of New York's Madison Avenue.
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Bernanke cites concerns with economy

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 18, 2007
Fed chief Ben Bernanke told Congress today that core inflation shows signs of increasing, the Gross Domestic Product isn't looking so hot and, oh yes, there's that subprime mortgage thing.
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