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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 (5,780)

Where are they now: Guns N' Roses edition

Mar 4, 2011
This final note today. Come with me now back to 1987. Duff McKagan was the hard-partying bassist for Guns N' Roses. A few years later, an interest...

Obama isn't worried about the NFL

Mar 3, 2011
This final note today. As negotiations between NFL team owners and the players association count down to a midnight deadline tonight, President...

Landscapes of extraction

Mar 3, 2011
Photographer J Henry Fair captures aerial images of pollution and destruction that result from extreme industrial processes. The images, simultaneously beautiful and horrifying, are meant to be viewed as a commentary on the impact of human consumption on the environment.

Nike unearths the original waffle iron for shoes

Mar 1, 2011
This final note today. I'm dating myself here, but I remember when running shoes didn't have much more than waffle prints on the soles. Nike's in...

Academy Awards ratings down from last year

Feb 28, 2011
This final note today, the first and last comment you'll hear on this broadcast about last night's Academy Awards. Somebody here in the office...

Boat show becomes casualty of economy

Feb 24, 2011
This final note today, an observation that our story yesterday about high-end retail doing pretty well in a still fragile economy has some limits....

The price of gas, right now

Feb 23, 2011
This final note today, the flip side of $100-a-barrel oil, what we pay at the pump. We've been getting some listener mail about spiking pump prices...

Ironic words from Moammar Gadhafi's son

Feb 22, 2011
This final note today. I'm going to read you something -- you try to tell me who wrote it, all right?...

Support for labor unions vs. support for big corporations

Feb 18, 2011
These final notes today. First of all, a follow-up to our item earlier this week about the guy in Philadelphia who's trying to foreclose on Wells...