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17 June 2015

17 June 2015, 23:00

Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis

Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently — but that doesn’t mean that the problem has gone away. The official national debt recently topped $18 trillion, and is projected to approach $27 trillion within 10 years.

17 June 2015, 15:01

Changing history: Remembering the 1990 world cup

Dr. Joe Machnik, No. 1 Soccer Camps Founder and former Assistant Coach for the 1990 US Men’s Team, recently shared some of his memories of the 1990 World Cup. Les Carpenter’s An Oral History of USA at Italia ’90...

17 June 2015, 12:03

Rand softer in early trade

Johannesburg - South Africa's rand weakened early on Wednesday ahead of domestic consumer price inflation data and as investors waited for clues from a Federal Reserve meeting on when US interest rates are likely to rise.

17 June 2015, 07:15

Stafast Suspension Stem

This spring, I had the pleasure of testing out a Stafast suspension stem. The promo video is below. I was skeptical whether the kind of riding I do on a daily basis would really benefit from a suspension stem.

15 June 2015, 16:00

Awe and beauty and wonder: Yeah, I’ll take that

Me, I’d never heard it — my education in serious music is spotty, to say the least — but the concert last week at Davies Symphony Hall gave me a chance to rectify that. There was, I regret to say, some distracting multimedia stuff going on...

15 June 2015, 02:20

An aficionado's favorite Mexican beers

13 June 2015, 03:52

An antidote to irony at Fraenkel Gallery

Consider Fraenkel’s exhibition “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” an episode in the creative community’s search for antidotes to the cynical strategy and humorless irony that taint much of 21st century art.

12 June 2015, 19:07

Touring the 'Jurassic World' filming locations on Kauai

11 June 2015, 22:00

Property Rights on the 10th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London - Panel 2: The Grassroots and Political Response to Kelo

In 2005 the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn residential properties and transfer them to a private developer for a planned office park (which never materialized).

11 June 2015, 20:30

Property Rights on the 10th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London - Panel 1: The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain

11 June 2015, 20:00

Property Rights on the 10th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London - Welcoming Remarks

11 June 2015, 09:00

Business trust in SA stumbles

Johannesburg - A raft of surveys released yesterday show business confidence in South Africa is in decline in the second quarter, following a temporary improvement at the start of the year.

11 June 2015, 05:46

Balboa Street, Outer Richmond

A gentle breeze from the ocean plays with the hair of shoppers as they stroll past bins of summer fruit at the produce market — a display of saturated yellow, orange and crimson — florist buckets of sunflowers and hydrangea blooms, and mom-and-pop dim sum spots and bakeries.

10 June 2015, 15:33

SA’s Q2 business confidence eases

Johannesburg - South Africa's quarterly business confidence index continued its decline in the second quarter of 2015 as demand fell following a temporary improvement at the start of the year, a survey showed on Wednesday.

10 June 2015, 03:53