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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 (6,146)

Make Me Smart | Episode 1293

The history behind Black Friday

Nov 26, 2024
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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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What's the value of a good stock ticker?

by Kai Ryssdal and Minju Park
Sep 2, 2021
A gray market in stock symbols is emerging on Wall Street, and some fetch six figures. Bloomberg’s Katie Greifeld tried to buy MEME.
Companies with clever ticker symbols outperformed the market from 2006 to 2018, a study showed. Bloomberg reporter Katie Greifeld tried to buy MEME.
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COVID-19

Business is strong, mall manager says, but virus still stirs worries

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Sep 1, 2021
Alana Ferko, who runs the Butte Plaza Mall in Montana, is trying to keep her workers and shoppers healthy.
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COVID-19

Some working moms are once again at risk of leaving their jobs

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Aug 31, 2021
Kelli LaFont and Lauren Pyle both know they, not their husbands, will stay home if their children are exposed to COVID-19.
Uncertainty over the future of working mothers is once again growing.
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"Monetary policy is the wrong tool": Why economist El-Erian thinks the Fed is making a mistake

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Aug 30, 2021
The economist and businessman disagrees with Fed Chair Jerome Powell's belief that inflation is transitory.
"I am saying, 'You know what, we have to be more humble about the inflation dynamics,'" Mohamed El-Erian says.
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What the Taliban takeover means for Toyota

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Aug 30, 2021
Toyota pickup trucks and SUVs have long been the Taliban’s preferred mode of transport. Does that damage the company’s brand?
Taliban fighters in a Toyota pickup in Kabul last week, one of many images showing the Taliban's fondness for the vehicles. But the brand's strength, says Utpal Dholakia, means "it is insulated against negative publicity over which it has no control."
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Cybercriminals are attacking supply chains, but why?

by Kai Ryssdal and Anais Amin
Aug 26, 2021
Attacks on businesses and corporations have ramped up this year. They can have a lasting effect on people and the economy.
Cyberattacks like the SolarWinds hack are increasingly common because it's hard for companies and governments to verify the security of every company they work with.
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How on-demand warehousing creates space for entrepreneurs

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Aug 25, 2021
“Our goal is to democratize logistics,” said Ben Euchus, co-founder and CEO of on-demand warehouse company, Flowspace.
Karlton Frazier, co-founder and CEO of The Manifest Company in his fulfillment center in Los Angeles. On-demand warehousing enabled Frazier to outsource storage and order fulfillment of his company’s yoga mats.
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How the "economic fundamentals" of opium undermined U.S. strategy in Afghanistan

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Aug 24, 2021
The U.S. spent billions trying to suppress Afghanistan’s illicit opium and heroin trade. It didn’t work.
A U.S. Marine sergeant patrols in an Afghan poppy field in 2011. With many farmers dependent on the opium trade, Jeffrey Clemens says, "the effort to win hearts and minds" was set back by the U.S. eradication program.
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Workplace Culture

Can companies really be empathetic toward their workers?

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Aug 20, 2021
As Anne Helen Petersen writes, messaging about empathy is different from taking action, and not every employee is buying it.
In an article for Time, Anne Helen Petersen argues that many corporations miss the mark when they try to show empathy to employees during the pandemic.
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Race and Economy

After 2 years, how have the Business Roundtable's commitments held up?

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
Aug 19, 2021
The group of top CEOs has pledged to support “all stakeholders” and advance the principles of racial justice.
In 2019, the group of top CEOs published a Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation, pledging to support "all stakeholders." Otis Rolley of the Rockefeller Foundation says much work remains to be done.
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