A crisis is unfolding on Wall Street, in credit markets, in corporate board rooms and cubicles, in big business and small business, and in households where people are sacrificing to keep finances afloat.
Who’s to blame for the current meltdown of the financial sector, caused by the dependence of so many corporate balance sheets on defaulting home mortgages?
Brad Dunaway is looking for places that serve breakfast with “good eggs … good orange juice and coffee” (and good hash browns, but more on that below), and it seems readers are eager to nominate their favorites.
It must be nice to be a chef, right? Access to all those exotic foods. All that equipment, all that space, all that help — not to mention a budget that in some cases is virtually unlimited. Except that many chefs — and cooks — also toil away in their home kitchens, where they don’t have quite as many bells and whistles, and where they, too, are feeling the pinch of the foundering economy.
Amore Pizza & Pasta, 3945 S. Durango Drive, received 18 demerits Sept. 17. Violations included raw chicken stored on shelf above open potatoes. GRADE: B
Review-Journal wine columnist Gil Lempert-Schwarz recently received the French Ordre du Mérite Agricole for his contributions to the field of wine.
The gloomier the nation’s economy gets, the brighter the prospects grow for Nevada’s No. 2 export industry, gold mining.
Shares of the major casino operators and slot machine manufacturers, which slumped in price along with the rest of the stock market during Monday’s record 777-point decline, regained some of their lost value Tuesday.
Western Alliance Bancorporation, the Las Vegas-based holding company for Bank of Nevada, said Tuesday that it completed a $50 million private placement of common stock, giving it the ability to acquire assets of distressed banks.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson invested $475 million in his casino company Tuesday evening to resolve any issues surrounding the company’s debt covenants.
WASHINGTON — The effort to roll back an Internet gambling ban has reached the Senate, with a bill by Sen. Robert Menendez that calls for licensing and regulating online poker and other “games of skill” instead of outlawing them.
NEW YORK — A closely watched index released Tuesday showed home prices tumbling by the sharpest annual rate ever in July, and though the monthly rate of decline is slowing, there is no turnaround in sight.
