This roundtable is on Rachel Laudans book, cuisine and empire. Why are we discussing this book . To bring history and Historical Perspective into broader public and policy conversations. This panel does that by focusing on an issue that is of great Public Interest today. Food is attracting attention in a variety of ways. People with disposable incomes cook and eat not only for sustenance, but for cultural projects. They ardently try the latest restaurants, experiment with new ingredients and recipes, learn about new cuisine, and approach mealtime with a deliberate appreciation. So much so, a new term has been coined to refer to them, foodies. Chefs have become celebrities. Some have even achieved sufficient wealth and public profile that they have created philanthropic organizations, generally addressing hunger which persists. Along with hunger, there are other related social ills like poor nutrition to obesity. Policymakers debate and pursue responses to the consumption of too little,
Plentiful job security. So we are here today to talk to a few former governors about health care solutions, at a moment when there is a lot of potential for change. What they saw from their perch as governor and how they see the situations thousand with governors and the work they do will be quite affected. I will did a brief round of introductions then let them introduce themselves through a few opening remarks they prepared. I have jim doug as. Jim hodges. Ben nelson. And all the way on my left is haley barbour, former governor of mississippi. Thank you so much for coming to join us here. [ inaudible ] thats good. Just been waiting there with that one. So i will start right here next to me with governor douglas if you want to kick us off with a few opening remarks for the panel. Happy to, sarah, thank you. And haley is on your right. Well positioned for this panel. I have the privilege of serving from 2003 to 2011. About the midpoint in 200 of we passed health care in vermont. I can
Get really nervous and thats much the same way donald trump, as you say a new yorker to the bone is a suddenly plain that you may not have guessed we first heard him talk. You can watch this and other programs on my netbook tv. Org. Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. Im an analyst here and also editor of Human Progress, which is an educational website that tries to put together as many statistics about human world being as possible in order to present to our users and the general public a more real action of the world than the headlines would suggest. Speaking about headlines, it is perhaps an understatement to say that we live in an era of great pessimism. This pessimism is not distributed easily evenly across the world. But, it is felt very acutely in many western democracies including ours, here in the us. Some three quarters of americans believe that the us is going in the wrong direction. The choices that the electric will be presented with comes november, exaggerates
We saw the major indexes all down. European markets, yeah, kind of a down show there too, as you might have expected. Well call it what 1 more or less when you average it all together. As for tenyear note yield here in the states had a recent high yesterday i believe in yield 1. 81. And there is all important crude and brent both below 50. Lets get to our road map this morning. And it begins with jeff bezos making headlines at that code conference. Were going to have much more on his future at amazon, the retail stores, donald trump. Yeah. Plus a new month in the markets after that may rally. Stocks as you saw starting in the red. And a deal this morning, not that large a deal but an interesting one, salesforce buying a Software Company 2. 8 billion total price tag, had a lot of cash. Marc benioff going to join jim right here this morning. I will at least get to say hello to the bearded master, im hoping. Lets get to carl in california at the code conference where jeff bezos was making
Tom is in washington, d. C. Tom it came out widely as expected. There were some nuance francine through the night. It was fascinating to watch the political derby at about 10 00 last night, maybe 10 30, particularly the tension among rubio of florida on the republican side. Lets go to some of those results. I think we know seven states in seven states for donald trump and Hillary Clinton the opening frontrunners but then it gets a lot more interesting. Well get to the secretary in a moment. For mr. Trump it is simple. Mr. Cruz of texas wins throw states. Really quite a speech from him and mr. Rubio needed badly to win and he won late in the night in minneapolis. 23 of the delegates are taken out by the secretary and by mr. Trump. 285 delegates for mr. Trump of 1237. 23 . Hillary clinton with 544 delegates, 2383. Mr. Rubio, i guess his staff breathes a sigh of relief and says we took minnesota. Here is donald trump going after mr. Rubio. I know it was a very tough night for marco rubio.