{"id":734,"date":"2008-10-07T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/10\/7\/Buddy-can-you-spare-six-billion"},"modified":"2008-10-07T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:02:00","slug":"buddy-can-you-spare-six-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/buddy-can-you-spare-six-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy, can you spare six billion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chuck Monster of VegasTripping.com<\/strong> is a man of few words, but he doesn&apos;t miss much (and his <strong>Dodgers<\/strong> are four wins shy of the World Series). He&apos;s run the numbers on <strong>Dubai World<\/strong>&apos;s purchase of <strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong> stock and found that the sovereign fund&apos;s $8.15 billion stake had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegastripping.com\/news\/news.php?news_id=2319\" class=\"broken_link\">lost $6,012,496,598<\/a> of its value by Oct. 3. To illustrate his point, he&apos;s whipped up a graph that puts it in terms that are, well, pretty graphic.<\/p>\n<p>Is this going to end up as yet another saga of overseas investors coming to Vegas and getting taken to the cleaners (<strong>Swiss Casinos<\/strong>, <strong>London Clubs<\/strong>, <strong>Tamares Group<\/strong>, <strong>El-Ad Properties<\/strong>, etc.)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&apos;s in a name?<\/strong> A big headache, possibly. Chuck has also been compiling &quot;Trippy&quot; award nominations and <strong>Glenn Schaeffer<\/strong> may want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegastripping.com\/news\/news.php?news_id=2318\" class=\"broken_link\">rethink that Fontainebleau moniker<\/a>. Chuck&apos;s readers have written in with at least <em>nine<\/em> different spellings, not counting the only-too-inevitable &quot;Fountain-blow.&quot; <strong>Boyd Gaming<\/strong>&apos;s in-abeyance <strong>Echelon<\/strong> doesn&apos;t prove very spelling-friendly, either. Six different spellings were offered, my favorite being &quot;Echolon.&quot; Lord knows, Boyd&apos;s found the project to be no small pain in the butt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Monster of VegasTripping.com is a man of few words, but he doesn&apos;t miss much (and his Dodgers are four wins shy of the World Series). He&apos;s run the numbers on Dubai World&apos;s purchase of MGM Mirage stock and found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/buddy-can-you-spare-six-billion\/\">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":[60,59,22,11,47,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}