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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 (6,145)

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The DOJ has a plan for Google

Nov 21, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1290

The new face of Trump's tariffs plan

Nov 21, 2024
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What happened to sweater weather?

Nov 20, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1289

A harbinger of change in Medialand 

Nov 20, 2024
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Private equity's appetite for restaurants

Nov 19, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1288

The myth America exported to the world

Nov 19, 2024
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A more equal nation?

Nov 18, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1287

Trump's revenge agenda

Nov 18, 2024
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... online

Nov 15, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1285

Whaddya wanna know about a second Trump term?

Nov 14, 2024
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How an Iowa farmer pushes through less-than-average crop yields

by Kai Ryssdal and Livi Burdette
Jul 27, 2023
It takes a "that's farming, buddy!" attitude — and crop insurance helps, too.
April Hemmes says farmers like her are "running scared" because over half of their soybeans are exported to China.
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For a profitable barge line on the Mississippi, it is "still too expensive to grow"

by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson
Jul 25, 2023
"Even though our business is good, we're not seeing any growth," said Austin Golding, CEO of Golding Barge Lines in Mississippi.
Golding has also been working to improve work-life balance for his employees, saying, "When I ask you to come live at work, and work floats around the country, that's a big ask."
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Milton Friedman’s “long and variable lag,” explained

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 24, 2023
A concept popularized by Milton Friedman in the 1960s still influences how the Fed talks about monetary policy today.
The phrase that Milton Friedman popularized — long and variable lag — still helps orient monetary policymakers today.
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Who will clean "thousands of tiny toxic waste sites all over our cities"?

by Kai Ryssdal and Livi Burdette
Jul 19, 2023
Leaking gasoline storage tanks pose an environmental — and financial — risk to fueling stations across the country.
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Reddit, Twitter and the [price] war on third-party developers

by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson
Jul 17, 2023
In a bid for new revenue streams, social media platforms risk alienating API makers, who are an integral part of the digital ecosystem.
Twitter and Reddit recently introduced new pricing schemes for third-party developers that use their platforms.
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Revisiting a Beijing vegetable stand, more than 25 years after moving away

by Kai Ryssdal
Jul 14, 2023
"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal visits his former Beijing neighborhood and reflects on decades of rapid change in China's economy.
A delivery vehicle for Jenny Lou’s, a grocery chain in the Chinese capital.
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The newest viral TikTok trend? Cottage cheese

by Kai Ryssdal and Livi Burdette
Jul 12, 2023
Cottage cheese, the curd-filled dairy product of 1970s diet fad fame, is back and trendier than ever.
This newly viral ingredient has been in the dairy aisle for decades.
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This little-known accounting measure is ringing an economic warning bell

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jul 12, 2023
The level of corporate earnings manipulation is similar to that of other pre-recessionary periods, according to the M-Score.
The M-Score was used to flag Enron as having an elevated risk of fraud years before the company filed for bankruptcy.
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A look at China's economic change from Beijing's Sanlitun neighborhood

by Kai Ryssdal , Jennifer Pak and Andie Corban
Jul 10, 2023
"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal and Shanghai correspondent Jennifer Pak walk around Sanlitun, where Ryssdal lived in the 1990s.
Jennifer Pak and Kai Ryssdal walk in Beijing's Sanlitun neighborhood. IIn the 1990s, the area was made up of old apartment buildings, vegetable stands and small bars catering to Westerners. Now there are luxury retail stores like Chanel and Dior.
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Yellen: U.S. intends to be "transparent about the actions that we've taken" when it comes to China

by Kai Ryssdal , Sean McHenry and Andie Corban
Jul 10, 2023
"Especially with COVID ... we've grown apart and misunderstandings have developed," Yellen says. "It's necessary to meet to discuss our differences openly."
"We fully expect to have more frequent communications at many different levels and have opportunities to explore concerns," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says of China. 
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