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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 (6,080)

Make Me Smart | Episode 1251

How some politicians are trying to sell their image

Sep 27, 2024
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Disposable income growth chugs along

Sep 27, 2024
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Let's get productive

Sep 26, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1250

Should jobs require a college degree?

Sep 26, 2024
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Housing market check-in

Sep 25, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1249

The little short-term spending bill that could

Sep 25, 2024
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How We Survive | Season 6 | Episode 3

Embrace the (Energy) Suck

Sep 25, 2024
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The Fed cut, but the T-note yield went up. Oops!

Sep 24, 2024
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Make Me Smart | Episode 1248

Kai on the military and climate change

Sep 24, 2024
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Inside Intel's issues

Sep 23, 2024
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Study: Foul calls are often black and white

by Kai Ryssdal
May 2, 2007
A study has found that white NBA referees call more fouls on black players, and black refs call more on white players. Allan Schwarz of The New York Times wrote a story about it. He talks with Kai Ryssdal.
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Divvying up Delta shares

by Kai Ryssdal
May 2, 2007
Having just emerged from bankruptcy, the new Delta Airlines begins life as a publicly traded company tomorrow. Our business correspondent Bob Moon sorts through the mechanics of a company getting out from under Chapter 11.
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What's Murdoch's plan?

by Kai Ryssdal
May 1, 2007
Kai Ryssdal talks with media columnist Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times about how Rupert Murdoch sees Dow Jones fitting into the News Corp empire.
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Keeping Mexicans home

by Kai Ryssdal
May 1, 2007
While immigration is a problem for the U.S., Mexico has an emigration problem. Latin America expert Pamela Starr talks with Kai Ryssdal about the Mexican President Calderon's efforts to deal with it.
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Corner Office

Sharing a successful vision

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 30, 2007
Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield turned California Pizza Kitchen into a $500 million operation with more than 14,000 employees. The co-CEOs talked with Kai Ryssdal in our latest.
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CPK Special: Half Larry, half Rick

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 30, 2007
Co-founders Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield are still leading California Pizza Kitchen side-by-side. Kai Ryssdal split a pizza with them recently and asked about their unusual working relationship.
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Week on Wall Street

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 27, 2007
Marketplace's resident stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson talks with Kai Ryssdal about this week's strong earnings reports and stock market rises.
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'Wal-Mart effect' hits flat-screen TVs

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 27, 2007
Business Week's Pallavi Gogoi talks with Kai Ryssdal about how the retail giant has altered another market — this time for one of the hottest items in consumer electronics.
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Bad news with the good at Ford

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 26, 2007
Ford reported today a better-than-expected first quarter loss of about $282 million. But Micheline Maynard at the New York Times says there's less to that than meets the eye.
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What would melamine be doing in food?

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 25, 2007
The FDA is looking into whether melamine, a chemical usually found in plastics, might have found its way into the human food chain. Kai Ryssdal talked with market researcher Harry Balzer about how concerned we should be.
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