What funding crisis?

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.

Risky loans

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?

Great breakfasts abound

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.

Chefs on the Cheap

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.

RESTAURANT REPORT

Amore Pizza & Pasta, 3945 S. Durango Drive, received 18 demerits Sept. 17. Violations included raw chicken stored on shelf above open potatoes. GRADE: B

R-J columnist receives honor

Review-Journal wine columnist Gil Lempert-Schwarz recently received the French Ordre du Mérite Agricole for his contributions to the field of wine.

Nevada cashes in on climbing gold prices

The gloomier the nation’s economy gets, the brighter the prospects grow for Nevada’s No. 2 export industry, gold mining.

IN BRIEF

Deadline nearing to claim piece of stimulus

Most gambling stocks have September swoon

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.

Bank holding company sells more shares

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.

Adelson pumps $475 million into Sands

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.

Senate bill calls for regulating, not banning, online poker

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.

Vegas atop home-price record drop

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.

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