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 power of youth...

Oct 6, 2008
Bloomberg says Paulson's going to put a 35-year-old former Goldman Sachs VP in charge of saving the planet....

How do you say 'too big to fail' in German?

Oct 5, 2008
Germany says it's going to back all private bank deposits. I'll tell you what...it's going to be an interesting week.

Don't look now...

Oct 2, 2008
...but this bailout bill isn't nailed down yet. 700 billion...250 billion? What's a couple hundred billion between friends?

Show me the money

Oct 2, 2008
I wanted to pick up on something from the show last night that went by pretty quickly. I was interviewing Rep. Peter DeFazio about the Senate bill...

Senate Bill...

Oct 1, 2008
Some of you have written to say you can't find the link I was talking about at the end of the broadcast today -- the one with the draft Senate bill...

Think about this for a second...

Oct 1, 2008
The CEO of the New York Stock Exchange said today he thinks the SEC's going to extend some kind of short selling protection to all publicy trade...