{"id":1885,"date":"2010-01-12T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2010-01-12T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:44:32","slug":"money-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/money-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Money quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1199\" title=\"OB-BB375_Macau__20080221142644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/OB-BB375_Macau__20080221142644.jpg\" alt=\"OB-BB375_Macau__20080221142644\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/OB-BB375_Macau__20080221142644.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/OB-BB375_Macau__20080221142644-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>&#8220;Even so, some experts say that it might be a blessing in disguise that <strong>Macau<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t overly reliant on entertainment-related revenue during the downturn. Analysts point out that one reason <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> casinos have yet to recover is that U.S. consumers, with less disposable income, are cutting back on discretionary spending, including dining, shopping and entertainment.&#8221; &#8212; <em>from a<\/em> USA Today <em>report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/world\/2010-01-11-macau-us-casinos_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">the ascendancy of Macao to first place<\/a> in the <strong>Wynn Resorts<\/strong> and <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> portfolios<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even so, some experts say that it might be a blessing in disguise that Macau wasn&#8217;t overly reliant on entertainment-related revenue during the downturn. Analysts point out that one reason Las Vegas casinos have yet to recover is that U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/money-quote\/\">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":[18,14,4,22,62,12,32,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"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=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}