Out, you can see that japan, the nikkei was flat, too. The hang seng and shanghai deposit down, too. Japan, the flat market there, japan avoiding a recession in the First Quarter gdp expanding by an annualized 1. 7 . Much more than a 0. 2 increase forecasters had predicted. Take a look at whats happening in european equities, the modest dines for the dax, cac, ftse. Down by 0. 25 . Take a look at crude oil price this morning, kruld is unchanged got all the way up to 48. 31. Brent crude is down six cents to 41. 42. Finally check out currency, across the board after comments from fed officials making it sound like june is actually a live meeting. Well debate this. The euro is at 1. 1266. The yen at 109. 41. Weve got top stories including political news, Bernie Sanders winning the oregon prime but nbc news is reporting that Hillary Clinton is the winner in kentucky. 99 tallied. Shes now within 100 of the delegates needed to clinch the democratic nomination. Goldman sachs downgraded its eq
Nod conversation [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for all the ambient noise. And welcome to Kansas City Public Library. Im the director of the Kansas City Public Library and its a pleasure to have you here tonight. To prove to you once again the Kansas City Public Library represents all political views and tonight its always it is as always a pressure for me to introduce my longtime friend jack cashill. Jack and i i have known each other almost since he was in short pants, in newark, new jersey, where he was born a little bit after he graduated from Siena College and got his ph. D at purdue in american studies. I think the only dissertation that defended the notion of american capitalism and american fiction, which is hard to do because is no american capitalism in american fiction. Jack and i Something Like 35 years ago, founded something the zenith boosters club, Political Discussion Club in which jack then ran for a number of years when i escap
Then upon her death left. It was opened as a Public Museum in 1963. We are now more than 50 years as an institution in washington, d. C. It is good to see all of you here tonight. Our program is entitled smile while you kiss me sad adieu. World war i songs. Let me introduce our speaker quickly. We like to remind people here that president wilson imagines a world at peace and proposed a plan to achieve that vision. That is a remarkable accomplishment when we take about it from the Vantage Point of our lives 100 years later. It is more remarkable if we transport ourselves back to his time and think about the world in which he lived and the ideas that were abroad at the time and the remarkable accomplishment that it was for him in the middle of a world war to imagine what the world ought to look like at peace and propose that that should be our default position, that there ought to be a league of nations and nations ought not to engage in aggressive war. This house allows us to take that
Theres no barrier. A physician can do this but theres increasing work to make it happen. The natural path of least resistance is to prescribe the preferred drug. These are levers. This is what is been called enlightened paternalism or the structure of incentives make it such that do what the insurers would like to maximize, the rational course of achieving cost savings forever is the equivalent drug is the outcome. As a physician, however, and as a patient one needs needs to remember thethat can be at times and opposition between reason and rationality. One thinks of the movie dr. Strangelove, for example, where dr. Strangelove who at the end of the movie as you know led by peter sellers, as eloquently rational madman who is leading the world of destruction, arrived by set of incredibly rational steps through economic game theory. So this idea that one can create a rational system which at times can produce unreasonable results i think is a dilemma that exist at the heart of modern med
The staff would appreciate if you pull up the chairs and leaned them against something. And so now for a for the feature presentation, it always makes our hosting job here a little easier on the day that the author is due to appear. Spin it however you want to. [laughter] okay. What seems amazing some of his closest friends is and how im using both turned out. Its how he found time to write it. For one thing, he represents a pretty demanding and far from securely democratic district, new yorks third Congressional District that includes a chunk of long island as well as a small proportion of queens also having served in congress for 14 years hes become a Ranking Member of the houston a critical leadership and twice chaired the Democratic National committee and kennedy. But he does enjoy writing and apparently developed a knack for doing so on his cell phone which is where he composed a good part of the book. Why a comic novel, as he told the Washington Post instead of screaming and yell