Historian featured. Order your copy today wherever books and ebooks are sold. Good evening, welcome, everyone. Im todd putman, members of our foundations board of dreshgts and all of my library and foundation colleagues, i thank you for joining us this evening. Let me acknowledge the generous underwriters of the kennedy underwriter forums, boston capital, the lowell institute, ratheon, and wbur and the boston globe. We considered have this Forum Last Night on the 50th anniversary of mrs. Kennedys tour, but didnt want to make you have to choose between sharing valentines day with loved ones or with your friends here at the Kennedy Library. So were so pleased to have so many of you with us this evening. 50 years ago Jacqueline Kennedy introduced herself to the nation. In many ways, the public already knew mrs. Kennedy through her role as the president s wife, mother of two children, and as the woman who charmed world leaders. But on february 14th, 1962, it was a more substantive Jacqueli
In the throes of pandemic lockdowns and concern over personal health, juice sales – which had been slumping amid the broad consumer rejection of sugar – saw a significant resurgence as demand for immunity and wellness beverages led a return back towards traditional fridge staples like Orange Juice. Now, a little over two years later, consumers are returning to pre-pandemic routines. Although juice sales may not compare to the 2020 boom, they remain elevated, and health and wellness continue to be top consumer concerns. Data firm IRI reported that refrigerated juice sales in MULO plus convenience were up 4.8% to
Lockdowns, the collapse of the foodservice sector, working from home, the closing of schools – all of these disruptive forces brought on by the coronavirus may have provided the accelerant needed to finally get Americans firmly aboard the seafood bandwagon.
Evidence, both qualitative and anecdotal, that suggests Americans are over their chronic seafood phobia has been mounting since the onset of the pandemic in March.
By now you are all familiar with the boost in consumption of shelf-stable and frozen seafood items. The entire shelf-stable tuna category saw a 28 percent increase in sales since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, Todd Putman, chief growth officer for canned tuna giant Bumble Bee told me in October. Frozen fish sales have seen similar positive results.
about a physical object. but this was a trade. a trade gone terribly bad. dimon said he didn t know how bad the trades were until late april. but you know what s amazing about this? major financial media knew well before jamie dime on. on friday, april 6th, the wall street journal reported on a trade so big the entire debt market was affected. and the next monday, this aired on bloomberg television. now for the biggest story on wall street. in a world where the volcker rule is supposed to stop banks from making bets with their own money, what is a jpmorgan trader in london doing with positions as big as $100 billion? what were they doing? well, dimon asked his lieutenants and they told him these press reports were a whole lot of bunk. and dimon trusted his lieutenants. then, april 13th, dimon took on analysts on a company conference call, shooting down questions about the out of control trade. it s a complete tempest in a tea pot. we do complex things but at the end o
wow. well, there s a surprising fact about the artist, carly ray jepson. outfront, next. i m erin burnett. welcome to outfront. outfront tonight, jamie dime on opens his kimono. the ceo of jpmorgan chase gave us all quite a mental image when he testified in front of the senate banking committee in washington about whether the largest bank in the united states has been open about its multi billion dollar trade losses. we generally are open kimono with the regulators and tell them what they want to know. open kimono. sure, that sure sexes up that testimony in washington but maybe he was open kimono about the things he knew about but not about things he didn t, like how the trade in question had morphed out of control. so this transaction that you said morphed, what did it morph into, russian roulette? it morphed into something i can t justify, that was just too risky for our company. he couldn t justify it. it was too risky. it s almost like he s talking about a