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Kai Ryssdal

Host and Senior Editor

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.

Latest Stories (5,787)

Are you the next voice of Aflac?

Mar 22, 2011
This final note today. If you can do this: Aflac! There's a job opening for you. Remember we told you last week Aflac, the insurance compan...

Auto industry's production delays have yet to begin

Mar 21, 2011
This final note today, one last item on Japan. The research firm IHS Automotive Insight has put a number on how big a problem the earthquake and...

Warren Buffett profits off a different Hathaway

Mar 18, 2011
This final note today, in which the somewhat arcane art of stock picking jumps the shark. A blogger at the Huffington Post noticed something...

House votes to defund NPR

Mar 17, 2011
These final notes today. First of all, another item in the federal budget. The House voted to defund National Public Radio today. Just NPR speci...

The all-time champion recipient of federal aid from the financial crisis?

Mar 16, 2011
This final note today, in which I somehow naively hope will be the last time we'll have to say the word "TARP" on this program....

Alan Greenspan's take on the state of the U.S. economy

Mar 14, 2011
This final note today, something to take our minds off Japan. Something a little lighter. Something, perhaps, from the mind of Alan Greenspan....

Investing in female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan

Mar 11, 2011
Author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses the challenges facing Afghan businesswomen.

The economic recovery ahead for Japan

Mar 11, 2011
The Economist's bureau chief in Japan, Kenneth Cukier, talks about how Japan might recover from this earthquake economically.

Weekly Wrap: The budget, oil prices

Mar 11, 2011
Kai Ryssdal goes over the past week's financial news with Sudeep Reddy from the Wall Street Journal and Leigh Gallagher from Fortune Magazine. This week: The budget fight in Washington, and the oil bubble.