Symphony Hall, Springfield Public Forum
Date/Time
Location
Symphony Hall (34 Court Street, Springfield, MA 01103, Springfield MA)
The Economy: What’s Changed? What’s Next? with Kai Ryssdal, Host and Senior Editor of Public Radio’s Marketplace
October 6, 2022 // 6:00 pm //
Cost: FREE
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Kai Ryssdal, Host and Senior Editor of Marketplace
Over the last 20 years, Kai has been the host and senior editor of Marketplace, the most popular program on business and the economy – radio or television, commercial or public broadcasting – in the country. He also co-hosts the podcast Make Me Smart
Kai won an Emmy Award in 2012 for Outstanding Investigative Journalism on a PBS FRONTLINE documentary about money in politics entitled BIG SKY, BIG MONEY. His written work has been featured in The New York Times and The Atlantic. He is frequently called on as an event and panel moderator at such conferences as the Aspen Ideas Festival, Atlantic Ideas, Fortune Brainstorm, and Fast Company Innovation. Kai also speaks regularly with policymakers, including the Federal Reserve Chair, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the White House National Economic Council. He interviewed President Obama twice in the Oval Office and once on a folding chair in the middle of the Nevada desert.