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More bankruptcies predicted
Financial Week weighs in the casino industry's current doldrums, amplifying the newly recurrent refrain that the revenue diversification which we thought would shield Las Vegas and other destination markets from the bad times is instead increasing its exposure to same. … Continue reading
Posted in Boyd Gaming, Herbst Gaming, Indiana, Morgans Hotel Group, Sheldon Adelson, The Strip, TV, Wall Street
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America's biggest celebrity
Sen. John McCain‘s presidential campaign rolled out a unique tactic this week: complaining that McCain’s opponent is more popular and famous. I suppose you could call it “out of the box” thinking, though it seems a tad whiny to me. … Continue reading
All-star atrocity
Pardon the digression whilst I vent about the bad joke that was last night's MLB All-Star Game (or was it the "State Farm All-Star Game" or something like that? Bud Selig is whoring the national pastime out like a regular … Continue reading
Blasts from the past
Snuggled inconspicuously in a recent El Cortez press release was the disclosure that the newly reconfigured ownership will include one Lonny Zarowitz. The aforesaid Zarowtiz figures briefly in John L. Smith's Running Scared: The Life and Treacherous Times of Las … Continue reading
Posted in Downtown, Harrah's, International, Regulation, Steve Wynn, The Strip, TV
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"Casino Bonds Crush Harrah's"
That’s Bloomberg, bearing the dire news that casino junk-bond debt is “generating the worst return for investors as companies from … Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. to Herbst Gaming Inc. risk bankruptcy under the weight of their debt.” With a return of … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Columbia Sussex, Detroit, Donald Trump, Harrah's, Herbst Gaming, Indiana, Station Casinos, TV, Wall Street
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Now it's Morgans' turn
Add Echelon to the list of Strip projects across whose future a shadow has fallen. No, the problem isn’t with Boyd Gaming. They’re right on track. According to this Reuters story, it’s Morgans Hotel Group‘s participation that’s not shaping up … Continue reading
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The Westin scandal …
… is growing legs. No, not these kind of legs. (Well, that too.) It’s also unearthed another strange-but-true story of business as usual at Columbia Sussex. That $25/bedbug bounty at the Trop is unwontedly generous by ColSux standards — a … Continue reading
Posted in Atlantic City, Columbia Sussex, Downtown, Harrah's, International, Labor, Politics, The Strip, TV
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