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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 (5,923)

Make Me Smart | Episode 1138

The rise of the (tax) resistance

Apr 15, 2024
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Playing an economic guessing game

Apr 15, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1138

Why owning a car is getting so expensive

Apr 12, 2024
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The subminimum wage for tipped workers is on the table

Apr 12, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1137

Bonds, Boeing and Beyoncé

Apr 11, 2024
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The ECB could beat the Fed to rate cuts 

Apr 11, 2024
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Hear that? That's the sound of millions of Americans dusting off their ACs.

Apr 10, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1136

The last mile of the inflation fight just got bumpy

Apr 10, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1135

The EV market's growing pains

Apr 9, 2024
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Copper prices are climbing

Apr 9, 2024
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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

Foreclosure wave isn't going away soon

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 15, 2009
In the last three months banks have foreclosed on nearly a million homes -- up almost 25% over last year. And such actions are spreading to more middle-class and upper-income neighborhoods. Curt Nickisch reports.
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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

Depression diary has recession lessons

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 13, 2009
A diary written during the Great Depression by a young lawyer named Benjamin Roth is now a book edited by his son, Daniel Roth, and James Ledbetter. The editors talk with Kai Ryssdal about what the diary means for today.
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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

How to pick jurors for Wall Street trial?

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 13, 2009
As jury selection continues in the trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, Kai Ryssdal talks with trial consultant Susan MacPherson about how lawyers pick jurors for such complex and high-profile cases.
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Marketers can't find 'average American'

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 12, 2009
A study out says we've become so diverse that there's no longer such thing as an average American. Kai Ryssdal talks to demographer Peter Francese, who helped write the report, about the challenge this poses to marketers.
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Money decisions start in the boardroom

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 12, 2009
Professor Oliver Williamson, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, talks to Kai Ryssdal about his study of companies and why economic decisions are sometimes better made in the boardroom than in the open market.
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Finding a way up when you're down

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 9, 2009
In Jess Walter's new novel, the protagonist is upside down on his house, out of a job, and a failure at starting a business. But he's got a comeback plan.
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Weekly Wrap: Examining the collapse

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 9, 2009
Leigh Gallagher from Fortune magazine and John Carney from Clusterstock.com review the business and financial events of the week with Kai Ryssdal.
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Los Angeles' art has imitated its life

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 8, 2009
John Buntin, who writes about the 20th-century relationship between organized crime and the Los Angeles Police Department in "L.A. Noir," takes Kai Ryssdal on a tour of the city's downtown and points out things that haven't changed much.
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Who should Tim Geithner be talking to?

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 8, 2009
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has logged in a lot of phone time with executives from big Wall Street banks. Who else could he be calling? Kai Ryssdal gets some insight from Anil Kashyap at the University of Chicago.
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Could tax credits help create jobs?

by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 7, 2009
The U.S. is down more than 8 million jobs since the recession started, and the Obama administration is considering giving companies tax credits if they create new jobs. Harvard University economist Greg Mankiw explains to Kai Ryssdal how it might work.
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