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 (5,777)

The Tabloid Reality Index

Sep 28, 2010
This final note today. Perhaps the first time the gossipy website Gawker.com has graced this program. Not that I read it or anything. But they have...

Apple dominates media's tech coverage

Sep 27, 2010
This final note today. A small victory lap, if I might. I got some heat from listeners a couple of weeks ago when I stifled a yawn over the latest...

It's not just the $300,000 price tag that hurts

Sep 22, 2010
This final note today. Another auto recall to tell you about. Seems like they just keep coming, doesn't it? It's a potential hazard to pedestrians...

Marijuana growers unionize

Sep 21, 2010
This final note today. Organized labor has been in trouble in this country for a while now. Union membership is down, their political influence is...

Another bank bites the dust

Sep 17, 2010
This final note today to mark the passing of ISN Bank in Cherry Hill, N. J. The FDIC shut it down this afternoon -- the 119th bank failure of the...

Congress passes a bill, before the election!

Sep 16, 2010
This final note today. Politics and the economy once again. Forget all that talk you've been hearing about nothing passing Congress 'til after the...

Update on the BP oil spill

Sep 15, 2010
This final note -- two, really, about the oil spill in the Gulf. First, retired Admiral Thad Allen said today the well will finally be killed, once...

Corn syrup v. Corn sugar?

Sep 14, 2010
This final note today, one that pretty much writes itself, to be honest with you. The Corn Refiners Association has just about had it with the...

People still reading, watching and listening to the news

Sep 13, 2010
This final note today: Y'know how a lot of people have been lamenting the death of news, in this era of blogs and Twitter and instantaneous...