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Thank you for the kind introduction. Thank you for being here. Its wonderful to be in washington which was my home for many years. Ive done so much of the research for the book. When i told taxi drivers what i was doing. I was writing a biography. Most of him have heard of him. He bought alaska. [laughter] and thats right. But what else did he do . What was he like . Let me take that last question first. What was he like as a person . During the civil war years, he was in his early 60s. Short, l...

Thats fair but republicans dont automatically assume the only way to people help people is with another Government Program and republicans circa dont agree with this particulaparticula r Government Program is a good thing. Again its hugely expensive. Its very bureaucratic. Even trying to get people to sign up for it they have had three years to come up with a system to enroll people and it is not working. Even the democrats admit that so in terms of the republican alternative we had a republican...

It it remains to be seen whether they are going to be safety case or performance standards or what kind of regulators they are going to be. Norway is another great example. Colombia has a terrific regulator. Those are other countries that have done this well. And on the fund, i think its pretty much only norway that has done this with the kind of political independence, fiscal independence that mexico has done. I think its worth spending a moments talk about the regulator. Thats the key element ...

The duke professor explores whether the social economic background of legislators affects their policy choices while in office. The program is about one hour. Host thanks for joining us. Whitecollar government, one thing that i just found out this morning because i was reading a book on my kindle is you have worked in various bluecollar jobs before you became an assistant professor. He wanted to talk about yourself and how you see your transition from working class. Do you see yourself come from...

Budget. Thats the number in 2013. So what we are going to do in the future is that base of the budget coming from oil will remain constant. And the way that it will stabilize our finances. The mexican finances will not be suffering from lack of money. So we have a constant of 4. 7 . After we reach the 4. 7 the rest of the money goes into longterm savings. That, up to 3 of gdp. Once we reach 3 of gdp we put that in the bank. Then if we assume theres another dollar that comes additional to the fir...

You will all be very famous because cspan is filming us today. I dont know when that will air, the state had. Thank you again for coming out. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] when you look at congress in 1901, less than 2 of members came from workingclass backgrounds, got into politics and eventually wound up in congress. Flash forward to the present day, the average member of congress that less than 2 of their career doing manual labor jobs, Service Industry jobs. So this is one thing that ...

Important Political Parties have proved their reform. It has over 20 state legislatures. I think that shows leadership. Now with the polls, it really depends, as in many important issues in public policy, what type of questions you ask. If you describe the benefits of reform of this type, the majority of the feel that are in favor of paying lower costs in electricity or gas. If you want to privatize pemex, you have a high response of no. But this reform is not pemex. Its natural gas in mexico an...

Minister decides, relatively autonomous. How big is the dividend going to be . Be government is still going to be relying on amex in the early years. In a put the money in the upstream rather than the downstream . This remains to be seen. The sixth is trusting the market. If it turns out the best economic proposition is to import gasoline, will that be ok . The seventh is local content. There is talk about the need for local content rules. What will they be . Will be like brazil . It is not inte...

Stories are lots of about slaves and freemen of color who made choices. When i began this book, i was convinced that the americans were the good guys, and the british were the bad guys. But the more i worked on this project, i became more and more that as the war came to an end, that it was the americans who were not the good guys. It was instead the british and the spanish who were the good guys. The british and the spanish offered freedom to their slaves. Andmen who served with them took them ...

, it is a selfregulatory institutions regarding those. Opics that they have to make a report to the ministry of energy. It will have the participation of the ministry of energy. The usmexico transboundary agreement cleared because of the budget deal. While is at the state department, we thought that would be the first baby step to cooperate with mexico on safety in the gulf of mexico. We have certainly learned a lot about safety at least in the deep water as oil spill prevention, itll still mech...