that's where jim cook comes in. 30er yaoe eer years ago. ompany, maker of sam adams, and, jim mnow is giving back helping new small business owners get loans through his brewing the american dream program, and mr. cook is with us in studio. thank you so much for joining. >> thank you for having me here a. >> this is phenomenal. we were just talking, yes, you can have a great idea. it can be on paper but you don't have the financial backing or the business know-how, which is also crucial here. how did you come up with this concept or idea? >> the sam add ms brewing the american dream program came out of my experience starting sam adams in my kitchen 30 years ago. two things i wished i had but didn't. one was access access to loan m. so i had to do this with just friends, relatives and drinking buddies and their drinking money went into sam adams and also good sound nuts and bolts business advice. that's what the sam adams brewing the american dream program provides to very small businesses in food, beverage and hospitality, we make microloans

also to celebrate the first the founder, jim cook. welcome. a beer right on site. well done. give the viewer the sense of what it means, in it has meant 2008, 4000 entrepreneurs and provided $3 million in micro-financing to over 300 food, beverage, hospitality and craft brewing businesses nationwide. truly amazing lending facility. >> the american dream came out it in my kitchen 30 years ago. i have a lot of passion for beer but things i wish i had been able to get but did not get with loan money. that's and bolts practical business advice. program haseam microloans and coaching and counseling for small businesses. >> what has been one of your biggest success stories? what is the biggest success? >> we have had lots of really wonderful stories. ewla. something called br they make airy healthy ice pops. you go down the aisle in the grocery store where there is unhealthy stuff. --y make these rude pops brewed pops. low calorie and low equivalent of an ice cream bar. a product that makes sense. they are very passionate about it. >> yes. they are in about 120 stores right now. la

also jim cook, founder of sam adams -- jim koch. they pulled out of the boston st.y parade. we will have to talk to him a little bit about that. you don't want to miss it more "street smart" tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. i will see you then. ♪ >> it is 56 past the hour which means bloomberg television is "on the markets." i'm alix steel. you had the s&p closing at yet another record high. take a look there. up 0.3% and recapitalizing on earlier losses. the nasdaq was down part of the day but slipping into positive territory towards the close him up 0.2%. factory orders in february rose more than estimated companies adding 191,000 jobs in march affecting the treasury market as well. the yield on the 10-year pushing to a three week high on better data. will the fed have good enough data to perhaps raise rates next year? that is with the treasury market is trying to work out right now. look at the has a time between stocks and bonds in today's insight and action. are it looks like investors changing their tune. time for some insight and action. i want to show you the etf money

. >> learn how you >> learn how you cook jim's hair is perfect. his serve, and his mandarin [speaking mandarin] xieúxieú, hou chiú but like up to 90% of americans, jim falls short in getting important nutrients from food alone. making jim more like us. add one a day multivitamins, rich in key nutrients you may need. how to make some food favorites the other coup in free. recipes are all part of how can it be gluten free cook book. >> welcome to the midday show. it is great to be here. we're cooking cookies. >> we're making a home and raise and cookies. for people who think blue unfree eating as a fat or in new debt tender really is a serious situation for many people. >> they're people with a life- threatening condition appeared a lot of people that a coup and and tolerant. the might have it digestive issue. that presents a problem when you're trying to make cookies. indeed flour to make the cookies actually stick together. without that have lots of problems. the spread to much in the oven and they're very dry and they're very hard. they've reinve

jim? >> this is a confrontation between the u.s. and russia unlike any we have seen in years. the jet flying threatening close to the "uss donald cookew by no fewer than 12 times. we're also learning that a russian frigate is shadowing the "donald cook." sending a message from russia to the u.s. as violence grows inside the ukraine. >> reporter: in one eastern ukrainian town after another, pro-russian militant seizing at gunpoint as ukrainian forces responded, the sides exchanged gunfire, killing at least one. today russian president vladimir putin said he is alarmed by the violence. u.s. officials place the blame firmly on him and his government. >> russia continues to engage in provocative actions. and it creates a threat of destabilization within the ukraine. >> unfortunately, the fact is that the arm's seizure of buildings in six eastern ukrainian towns yesterday and several more today mirrors the tactics that russian forces used in the early stages of the crimea invasion. >> reporter: it's a charge russia, however, flatly denies, describing the protests as peaceful. and accusing the u.s. of h hypocrisy beyond any limits. >> joh

cook. we will take you live to the workshop for an interview with the former chairman of goldman sachs asset management, jim'neill. ♪ >> welcome back. let's go live this morning to the ambrosetti workshop in cernobbio. we will be speaking to the former chairman of goldman sachs asset management. .im, thank you for joining us let's talk about the biggest threats to global growth right now. there is a list to choose from, i guess. what worries you? a number of things are nagging away at me. is alowdown in china never-ending thing to focus on. of in the camp that is sort all deliberate and quite manageable, but every now and then i think, it is getting a little bit out of hand. global relevance of china, in many ways, i would say that is the single most important thing. in the so-called developed world, you have growing differences of issues with the u.s. and europe. it is increasingly about the exit fromut how they the economic policy in place. in europe, you have this growing battle against inflation and whether the germans are prepared to take it more seriously. as if the ecb, mary draghi, he, -- mario what

jim cramer. simon hobbs to tell us what's going on. >> we'll look at how high apple can go now that tim cook returned it to serious growth. , another bad year for mining and gary will be here to pick up the point jim made. behind the momentum stocks according to gary, vice chairman of morgan stanley next on cnbc. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain. it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor. if your doctor decides viagra is right for you, you can fill your prescription at your pharmacy. or, check out viagra home delivery, a convenient place to fill your prescri

cooking the food, and say, "hey, what can i get you? what are you looking for?" >> i would just be doing seed production if it weren't for jim driving in here and refusing to drive away and sayin "no, i really want this stuff. no, you don't understand, i really do want to buy this stuff." and "i really want this, and i really want it now, and i really want some, and i want samples," and you know, so forth and so on despite my best efforts to get rid of him. >> as chef michael tuohy starts preparing meals with the greens, he admits his job would be so much more difficult if it were not for produce experts like jim mills. >> jim fills a need here that nobody else does, and that is he--his company and him, particularly, works with several small farms that i would want to work with directly. however, my time is really challenged most of the time, so he takes a load off my shoulder by--he's almost a one-stop shop, and so, i can place my order with him, and i know that i'm getting the best of what is local, fresh, and organic, if i specify. >> millc admits that following the produce directly from the farm to the fork is a great wa