A rare Victorian-era home―its gas-lit heyday marked by white-glove soirees―has come to market in San Diego’s Bankers Hill district. The 1889 Queen Anne-style home, with its dome-topped tower, wraparound gingerbread porch, carriage house and impeccably maintained interior is priced at $6.485 million. “This is one of San Diego’s best,” says Bruce Coons, an architecture historian
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U.S. public pension funds are steering more money into infrastructure, joining a larger trend of private infrastructure funds raising big money over the last two years. In its 2023 annual report on public-private partnerships and infrastructure investment, the Reason Foundation found that infrastructure investment funds raised $149 billion last year, marking the second consecutive year
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While passage of a fiscal 2024 budget took center stage during Illinois’ spring legislative session, lawmakers also advanced potential public-private partnerships, extended transit’s break from farebox funding rules, aided hospitals, and cemented a pension overhaul for Cook County. Budget passage came late last month, one week after the General Assembly’s self-imposed May 19 date but
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The future is Asian, argues the respected analyst, Parag Khanna. But this piece of conventional wisdom needs unwrapping. Geographically, Asia is no more a continent than is Europe. “Asia” itself is not even an Asian idea: Europeans invented it. Asians did not conceive of themselves as being part of a single continental entity. The region
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Golf’s US-based PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league LIV have agreed to join forces, ending a long-running feud. The PGA Tour and Riyadh’s Public Investment Fund have agreed to create a jointly managed entity to house their commercial operations, and intend to cease their pending litigation. The European Tour has also signed up
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In this article AAPL MKC HQY MBLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amnon Shashua, president and chief executive officer of Mobileye Global, and Patrick Gelsinger, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., outside the Nasdaq MarketSite during the company’s IPO in New York, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty
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The recent failures of regional banks is emboldening Washington’s administrative state to double down on regulation. Regulators across the city are rushing to write new rules to further inject Washington’s central planners into the functioning of our capital markets.  The American Securities Association, which I run, recently sent a letter to the Washington bureaucracy with
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The venture capital giant Sequoia Capital is splitting its China business into a separate entity amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. The renowned Silicon Valley firm, which made bets on fast-growing tech companies such as TikTok parent ByteDance and Alibaba, said on Tuesday it will run its Chinese business as a “completely independent” entity
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After weeks of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory and cross-border raids — a prelude to the long-awaited counter-offensive now gathering pace — it is Russia’s turn to distract and destabilise its enemy. The destruction of the Kakhovka dam over the Dnipro river is far more than a psychological game. It will have long-lasting humanitarian
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