Marketplace — the fresh sound of business and economic news. Voted "Best of the Best" in 2003 by Media Life magazine, Marketplace has the largest audience for any business program in the United States on radio, cable or network television.

Smart, Distinctive Sound

This smart, hip and literate program is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world—and what it all means to us. The only national daily business news program originating from the West Coast, Marketplace has four domestic bureaus — in New York, Miami, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, plus international bureaus in London and Beijing. Marketplace also maintains editorial relationships with The Economist magazine and Reuters news service, further expanding the program's resources and reach.

Award-Winning Journalism

Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace

The world-class reporting staff at Marketplace has won every major award in radio broadcasting since the show's inception in 1989, including the Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting and Cable and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Silver Baton. The program benefits from the creativity, experience and international perspectives of Executive Producer J.J. Yore, Senior Producer Celeste Wesson and Host Kai Ryssdal.

Before becoming the host of Marketplace, Kai Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for The California Report, a news and information program distributed to public radio stations throughout California by KQED-FM.  He covered business and the economy, state politics, criminal justice, capital punishment and agriculture for the program.  His work there won first place awards from the Radio and Television News Directors Association and the national Public Radio News Directors Association.  After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta, Kai spent eight years in the United States Navy, first flying from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and then as a Pentagon staff officer.  Before his career in public radio, he was a member of the United States Foreign Service and served in Ottawa, Canada, and Beijing, China.

Airs: 6:30 p.m. Monday - Friday on KSTX and KTXI
Website: marketplace.publicradio.org

Global Food Crisis on Marketplace

MAY 7, 2008
FOOD PANGS – by Scott Tong
The long-term, slow-motion crisis driven by China. Its middle class is vastly raising demand for protein, when the country is already short of arable land, is losing more to urbanization, and is running out of water. So just as China recently became a net importer of coal and oil, it will soon be importing vast quantities of soybeans, corn and wheat.

MAY 8, 2009
FOOD CARTEL – by Sarah Gardner
Agribusiness giant Cargill just reported an 86 percent jump in quarterly earnings, largely from its operations that buy, process and distribute farm commodities. Cargill is one of a handful of companies that dominate commodity processing around the world.

MAY 9, 2008
NEW FACE OF HUNGER – by Sean Cole and Gretchen Wilson
Whole new classes of people are facing hunger for the first time. Marketplace starts in the United States, where there have been runs on food pantries, then takes us to South Africa, where families spend 40 percent of their incomes on food, cutting back on other expenses such as health care and education.

Marketplace Morning Report — business news to start the day.

Marketplace Morning Report is a business news update airing weekdays at 7:50 and 8:50 a.m. during NPR's Morning Edition.  This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report.  Concise, accurate, engaging and informative, Morning Report uses the same confident, witty style that characterizes its parent program, Marketplace, the award-winning, evening business news show.


Airs: 7:50 and 8:50 a.m. Monday - Friday on KSTX and KTXI
Website: marketplace.publicradio.org/am.html

Global Food Crisis on Marketplace Morning Report

MAY 7, 2008
Commentary: Missouri farmer Richard Oswald talks about the upside of the food crisis for small farmers like himself.

MAY 8, 2008
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY – by Reed Lindsay
Rice was once a luxury food in Haiti. Then the U.S. and WTO forced the country to reduce its tariffs, and Haiti was flooded with cheap U.S.-subsidized rice. Now everyone ate rice – and abandoned traditional foods. When rice prices soared, riots followed. Imported rice had killed domestic food production.

GOING NUTS – by Josephine Bennett
China, a leading exporter of peanuts, is hoarding its entire crop for domestic use this year. So American farmers are expected to plant an additional 20 percent, stepping up – in cheap dollars – for importing regions like Japan, Mexico and Europe.

MAY 9, 2008
MISSING INGREDIENTS – by Sam Eaton
All Recipes, the largest online cooking community, says traffic to recipes using low-cost ingredients such as ground beef and pasta nearly doubled in three months. Searches for low-cost recipes increased 74 percent. And consumers aren’t alone. Food companies are cutting back on ingredients, too. Yes, there are fewer vegetables in your Campbell’s vegetable soup. 

RIPPLE EFFECT – by Stacey Vanek-Smith
People who grow their own vegetables spend more on seeds, on tools, on plants, on fertilizer. The trend is up, but can the savings be sustained?