{"id":1022,"date":"2008-11-05T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/11\/5\/Columbia-Sussex-contest"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:12:08","slug":"columbia-sussex-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/columbia-sussex-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Sussex contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to confess that bond-market lingo is hardly my strong suit. So can anyone out there explain what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/Fitch-Takes-Various-Actions-ASC\/story.aspx?guid=%7BB76D0E59-57C8-45D5-8FD9-3FC2A5914ACF%7D\" class=\"broken_link\">this bulletin<\/a> means for casino industry pariah <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><em>One loan remains in the pool: Columbia Sussex, which has been fully defeased and has an anticipated repayment date in 2015. As of the October 2008 remittance date, the transaction&#8217;s outstanding principal balance has been reduced by 92.0% to $77.3 million, from $967.2 million at issuance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Be the first one to answer and a free copy of <strong>Bill Zender<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Casino-ology<\/em> shall be your reward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open mouth, insert foot<\/strong>. That&#8217;s&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/sleuth\/2008\/10\/rep_boehner_calls_obama_a_chic.html?hpid=topnews\" class=\"broken_link\">President-elect Chickenshit<\/a>&#8221; to you, Congressman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great moments in journalism<\/strong>. The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&#8216;s editorial page can be pretty hardcore. But it seems to strike exactly the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122586244657800863.html\">right, measured tone<\/a> today, rising to the occasion with grace.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegans, on the other hand, can be ever so proud of the example set by the <em>Review-Journal<\/em>, whose editorial writers &#8212; as is so often their wont when <em>vox populi<\/em> is not <em>vox R-J<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/opinion\/33887244.html\">curl up in the corner<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/opinion\/33887239.html\">kicking and screaming<\/a> in impotent, infantile rage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to confess that bond-market lingo is hardly my strong suit. So can anyone out there explain what this bulletin means for casino industry pariah Columbia Sussex? One loan remains in the pool: Columbia Sussex, which has been fully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/columbia-sussex-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}