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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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What's happening to the news?

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 27, 2007
In a PBS Frontline documentary, correspondent Lowell Bergman looks at the economics of the news business. Kai Ryssdal talks with him about how the Internet has changed journalism.
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Corner Office

John Mackey on Whole Foods' growth

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 26, 2007
In part two of our interview with John Mackey, the Whole Foods Market CEO talks to Kai Ryssdal about how the company has grown.
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Warming to environmental concerns

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 26, 2007
Kai Ryssdal talks with David Hawkins, who runs the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the effects global warming is having on business deals.
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Corner Office

A different philosophy on food markets

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 23, 2007
In part one of our latest installment of "Conversations from the Corner Office," Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey and Kai Ryssdal rap about organic food and growing as an entrepreneur.
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Week on Wall Street

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 23, 2007
Stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson discusses with host Kai Ryssdal what happened on Wall Street this week and what may lie ahead.
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Golden State raises ante for 2008 campaign

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 22, 2007
A California Assembly committee today voted to move up next year's presidential primary from June to February. If signed by the governor, candidates' campaign costs will rise considerably.
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Shelf Life

Airbus takes another hit, but it's still competing

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 21, 2007
British Airways announced it's buying four new jets from Boeing — not Airbus — with the option to buy four more. John Newhouse, author of a new book on the Boeing-Airbus rivalry talks with Kai Ryssdal.
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Flying close to the margins

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 20, 2007
JetBlue is trying to bounce back from what its CEO David Neeleman called a mortifying series of events over the past week. The Wall Street Journal's Scott McCartney tells Kai Ryssdal that other airlines risk a similar fate.
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With economic fairness for all

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 16, 2007
Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee talks with Kai Ryssdal about the committee's hearing on how to balance economic growth with social fairness.
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Investors' interest in British soccer kicks in

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 15, 2007
Owners of some big-time American sports franchises are betting heavily on English football — as they call it over there. Business-of-sports analyst Ed Derse talks with Kai Ryssdal about the trend.
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