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VOLUME 3 NUMBER 15
JANUARY 5, 2006
Betting On Vegas Bust May Be Bad Beat
By DOUG FRENCH
Penny Press Contributing Editor
Fifty years ago a Life magazine
cover asked – “Las Vegas – Is Boom
Overextended?” After all, three
hotels had opened in the spring of
that year costing a total of $15 mil-
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lion and two more were opening that
summer including the $5 million
Dunes. “Had Las Vegas pushed its
luck too far?” Life wondered.
Nearly 30 years later, Malcolm
Baldrige, while serving as Secretary
of Commerce in 1984 was quoted
as saying, “the current boom in Las
Vegas could last four more years.”
But, of course here we are 20
years later, and Sin City continues
to boom.
What Life Magazine and Poor
Malcolm failed to grasp is what
really makes Las Vegas – Las Vegas.
The town is ground zero for high
time preference. People go to Las
Vegas to have a good time, blow
their money and maybe be a little bit
naughty. After all, “what happens in
Vegas, stays in Vegas (or according
to the Palms casino “didn’t happen
at all”)”. Let’s face it you don’t go to
Vegas to be civilized or prudent, just
the opposite. As Las Vegas Mayor
Oscar Goodman told the Denver
Post: “People don’t come here from
the Midwest to go to an AA meeting,”
Thirty-seven million people
come to Las Vegas each year to get
in touch with their wild sides. And,
it appears LV will easily break last
year’s attendance record. The city’s
convention attendance is up over
13 percent from last year’s record.
Hotel occupancy is over 90 percent,
with the average room rates 14 percent higher than a year ago. Even
The Conservative Weekly
Voice Of Las Vegas
Inside:
News Isn't News
Until It's True
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car traffic is up 5 percent. High gas
prices: Who cares?
Of course, tourists come to town
to gamble. In fact gaming win topped
$1 billion in Nevada for only the
third time ever in September. The
other two months with over a billion
dollars in win? April and May of
this year. Gaming win is up over 12
percent from a year ago.
But Las Vegas is not all about
gambling any more. For example, last month the Rolling Stones
played at the MGM Grand (sponsored appropriately enough by those
“Sponsors of the American Dream”
Ameriquest Mortgage). A seat in
the 9th row was being hawked in
the secondary ticket market for over
$5,500. Even nosebleed seats were
fetching over $200.
For those looking to enjoy a
steak before the concert, Craftsteak
in the MGM is just a few steps
away from the concert hall where
for a mere C-note you can have its
10-ounce Kobe fillet mignon. Yes,
Penny Wisdom
Every now and then when your
life gets complicated and the
weasels start closing in, the only
cure is to load up on heinous
chemicals and then drive like a
bastard from Hollywood to Las
Vegas ... with the music at top
volume and at least a pint of
ether.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Las Vegas has some of the highest
steak dinner prices in the world.
Bill Bonner recently lamented that
a good steak dinner in London costs
$28 as opposed to only being $5 in
Buenos Aires. Well, finding a good
steak dinner for $28 in Las Vegas
is mission impossible. Las Vegas
Review-Journal gossip columnist
Norm recently wrote that $50 steaks
are so plentiful on the Strip that he
couldn’t count them all. At the top
of the price list is the Shintaro in
Bellagio, their 10-ounce Washugyu
Kobe tenderloin goes for $190.
People everywhere complain
about $2 to $5 ATM fees. But, at
Scores Las Vegas gentlemen’s club
the ATM fees are ten percent of
your withdrawal amount. And don’t
think you can take out just $10 for
G-string stuffing. Your withdrawal
choices range from $100 to $500.
Strip club patrons are so coveted in Las Vegas that the clubs pay
bounties to cab drivers of up to $100
PAT CHOATE
FRED WEINBERG
DOUG FRENCH
BILLHERE
AL THOMAS
PATRICK NOHRDEN
JOYCE MEYER
BRENT JORDAN
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per head (even higher than the $60 per head figures mentioned in newspaper
reports), allowing cab drivers like Dana Lane to live in the upscale gated
community of Seven Hills. “I don’t live in Seven Hills because the cab
company pays so well,” Lane told the Review-Journal.
Las Vegas is now one of the shopping capitals of the world. The
Venetian sold its half a million square foot Grand Canal shops for $1.5 billion last year. Those shops average nearly $900 per square foot in sales each
month.
Speaking of retail, the labor market is so tight in Las Vegas, that retailers
are worried they won’t have enough help for the upcoming holiday shopping season. Headhunters from Citibank actually pretend to be shopping in
the malls for big-ticket items like sofas or chairs, when in fact they are trolling for potential employees for the bank’s credit card–processing center.
Vegas restaurants are also struggling to find employees. One café owner
in town pays his employees $150 if they bring someone in with them that
gets hired. And he says he has to fend off Wynn Resorts, which has representatives that scout for potential employees in local restaurants.
But the delightfully tacky Hooters has no trouble attracting job applicants. The company will be opening their Las Vegas hotel in February of
next year, and last month they held a casting call for Hooters Girl positions:
800 young women waited in line over two hours vying for only 200 spots.
Even UNLV sees the handwriting on the wall. Forget higher learning,
the university is partnering with Cendant Timeshare Resort Group to develop a full-scale timeshare program. UNLV already has 125 students enrolled
in timeshare courses, offering an introductory class in marketing and a capstone course in strategic management issues, but a class in timeshare sales
will be offered next spring and there are plans to expand the program into a
major within the next few years.
Conspicuous consumption, as Thorstein Veblen called it, is what Las
Vegas is all about. Even Mayor Goodman embraces the attitude, quickly
admitting to anyone, including third graders he spoke to not long ago that
he’s addicted to Bombay Saphire Gin and sports betting. Former FBI agent
Rick Baken says Goodman is “the poster child of being able to rationalize
immorality.”
Downtown, the only area where Mayor Goodman has any control (the
strip is County land), Las Vegas is now battling with High Point, North
Carolina to be the furniture capital of the world. The World Market Center
in downtown Vegas opened for business this summer with over 1.3 million
square feet of home furniture display space. Phase two, adding 1.6 million
square feet is under construction with a scheduled opening in January 2007
and a phase three was just announced that will add another 2 million square
feet in 2008. By 2015, the project will ultimately total 8 buildings with 12
million square feet on 57 acres.
Even though High Point already has 12 million square feet of display
space they should give the Furniture Capital crown up now. Attendance at
High Point’s fall show was way down, and one salesman said; “If Vegas
had a bigger facility, I don’t know if anyone would turn out to High Point.”
Of course furniture vendors would rather come to Vegas. Just for emphasis
Mayor Goodman told the press that if he had to live in High Point, North
Carolina, he’d kill himself.
In addition to capturing the furniture market, Vegas is being called
upon to rescue the Miss America Pageant. It was just announced that after
being run into the ground in Atlantic City, Miss America will be sashaying
across the stage at the Aladdin Hotel Casino in Las Vegas starting next year.
“There’s a lot of excitement in the city, and we hope to infuse that into the
pageant,” Paul Villadolid, vice president of programming for Nashvillebased CMT, said. “Las Vegas echoes our vision to attract a broader and
younger audience.”
Hans Hoppe explains the Las Vegas boom in his book, Democracy The
God that Failed.
Hoppe points out that man prefers earlier goods over later goods, and for
more over less durable goods. This is the phenomenon of time preference.
The rate of time preference is different for everyone and determines “the
height of the premium which present goods command over future ones as
well as the amount of savings and investment.”
The lower the time preference rate, the earlier the onset of the process
of capital formation, and the faster the roundabout structure of production
will be lengthened. Civilization is set in motion by individual saving, investment, and the accumulation of durable consumer goods and capital goods.
Children have very high time preferences, living “day to day and from
one immediate gratification to the next,” Hopper explains. As we become
adults, our time preferences fall as we save for future obligations. Old folks
have higher time preferences, because they have little time left.
Hoppe describes high time preference individuals as drifters, drunkards,
junkies, vagabonds, daydreamers, or simply just happy-go-lucky gay sorts
of fellows who work as little as possible.
Time preferences tend to fall except if property rights are violated, and,
in the words of Hoppe, “the process of civilization is permanently derailed
whenever property-rights violations take the form of governmental interference.”
This government interference reduces a person’s supply of present
goods and raises his effective time-preference rate. Also, expected future
goods are reduced by these systematic property rights violations, thus timepreference schedules are raised.
What Democracy and government have done is to retard the natural
tendency of humanity to build an expanding stock of capital and durable
consumer goods. Man, instead of becoming increasingly more farsighted
and providing for ever more distant goals, is tending toward decivilization. As Hoppe describes, “formerly provident providers will be turned into
drunks or daydreamers, adults into children, civilized men into barbarians,
and producers into criminals.”
That sounds like an average night in Las Vegas to me.
Joining the tourists in Las Vegas are new residents. Over 7,200 people
per month move to Las Vegas. That’s 10 people per hour. The town’s current
population is 1.7 million and some predict four million residents by 2027.
Where do they come from? The vast majority of those moving to Las
Vegas come from California (34 percent). Texas, Arizona and Florida each
provide five percent.
And Las Vegas has a land shortage. The federal government owns 90
percent of the land in Nevada and Clark County is no different. The BLM
(Bureau of Land Management) auctions a couple of thousand acres every
six months, excepting when biologists find endangered weeds on the parcels
scheduled for sale, which causes the Sierra Club to file suit, which in turn
delays the auctions while a compromise to appease the environmentalists is
worked out.
Just last month the BLM held its second auction of the year selling about
3,000 acres of government land for just under $800 million. This auction’s
crown jewel was a 2,073-acre piece coupled with a nearby 601-acre parcel
in North Las Vegas. The fair market value or minimum bid for the nearly
2,700 acres was set at $522.4 million. The usual suspects bid the price to
$639 million, which is $239,000 per acre, nearly 10 times what was paid
just four and half years ago, at the May 2001 BLM auction, for the 1,905acre parcel, located next door, which at the time went for $47.2 million, or
$24,672 per acre. The winning bidder four and half years ago was criticized
at that time for paying too much.
It is no wonder George Bush wants to direct some of this BLM land sale
money to pay for Iraq, Katrina and who-knows-what-all. That $800 million
would fade his action in Iraq for what, two days?
There may be a shortage of land, but there is no shortage of air in Las
Vegas, so developers with the blessing of the various municipalities are
going vertical. Las Vegas is in the middle of a high-rise boom.
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Commentary: Pat Choate
Abramhoff has been a Washington
fixture for almost two decades, arriving on the scene almost twenty years
ago as head of a group that recruited
college students to the Republican
Party. Two of his many former
employees are Karl Rove, President
Bush’s top advisor, and Ralph Reed,
once the TV preacher Pat Robertson’s
senior political advisor. The man is
connected.
On Tuesday, Abramhoff entered
a plea bargain with the Justice
Department in which he will get
“only” ten years in prison in exchange
for spilling the beans about who he
bribed in Congress. He also agreed
to give back $29 million that he
conned out of several truly dumb
leaders of various Indian Tribes,
who were seeking special advantage
in the U.S. gaming industry.
While the media is describing
Abramhoff as a “Republican” lobbyist, they are giving little attention
The term scandal has been greatto the fact that several prominent
ly devalued over the past couple of
Democrats have taken substantial
decades, largely because our nationamounts of money from him. The
al political standards are devolving
media is also ignoring the many
downward.
ways that Abramhoff distributed the
Nonetheless, the real thing, an
cash.
old-fashioned expose of corruption
Sometimes it went for luxury
at the highest levels of our governvacations. On other occasions, he
ment, is now in its very beginning
put the spouse of the Member on
stages. The principal participants
his payroll. On yet other occasions,
include perhaps as many as two
he gave money to organizations that
dozen Members of the House and
shifted the money back to the tarSenate who took monies and did
get through non-profit institutions
favors for Washington super lobbyor in other ways. The transcript of
ist Jack Abramhoff.
Abramhoff’s testimony will probably constitute a textbook on modern
ways to bribe members of congress.
After having read Abramhoff’s
plea bargain, I am surprised to see
some major stories that were missing. The most notable of these is
his work for the Marianna Islands,
a U.S. Commonwealth in the far
Pacific, whose residents have U.S.
citizenship.
Between the mid-1990s and
today, Abramhoff represented the
Island government and several forThe Penny Press Tips Its Cap To:
eign apparel makers. The Island,
which had authority to set its own
Boyd Gaming Corporation for their willingness to re-invest about four bil- labor and immigration laws, set a
lion (with a b) in the city from which it came by redeveloping the Stardust minimum wage at the pennies for
Property. Ever since Boyd wrested the property from the clutches of the
mobbed up Argent Corporation in the 1970's, they have done Las Vegas
proud and their new Echelon Place development looks to continue that
tradition.
At Last, A Real
Scandal
Paris Hilton for not causing her boyfriend, 19-year-old Stavros Niarchos to
violate Nevada statutes by involving himself in underage drinking on New
Year's eve. Hilton reportedly stayed with the youngster outside the Tao
nightclub and he reportedly drank orange juice.
The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer
And A Bouquet of Weeds To:
Senator Harry Reid who, for all of his bluster and power as the Senate
Minority Leader can't seem to get Nevada out of the cellar when it comes to
federal per capita spending in our state. We pay the Feds the damn money
and if Harry can't use his clout to do more than call the President a loser,
maybe he ought to remember who elected him in the first place.
hour level and permitted virtually unlimited immigration of young
Chinese and Filipino women to
work in apparel factories located
in remote parts of the Island behind
barbed wire enclosure. More than
35,000 young women worked in
these factories as slave laborers.
The U.S. Senate passed legislation that would have brought
the immigration and labor laws of
those islands under U.S. standards.
What to do? Abramhoff took a
dozen Members of the House of
Representatives and 80 House staff
on a 18,000 mile round trip to those
islands. Supposedly, they went to
inspect the local economy. Mostly,
they played golf, sunned themselves
and fished. The island also hosts
some of the highest-class brothels
and casinos in the Pacific area.
Abramhoff moved hundreds
of thousands of dollars donated by
the Chinese apparel companies and
others into individual House races.
The House GOP leadership kept the
reform legislation bottled up.
If this story was not worth telling in the plea bargain, I cannot
wait to see what is revealed at trial.
The one thing that is for sure is that
2006 will be politically dominated
by Abramhoff’s testimony and the
congressional indictments that are
yet to come.
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OPINION
THE PENNY PRESS, JANUARY 5, 2006 PAGE 6
From The Publisher...
24 Hour News Morons Blew It
As I write this, I’m watching the king of the cable news channels, Fox, questioning how the news that 12 miners in West
Virginia survived a mine explosion got out, incorrectly.
Apparently they weren’t watching themselves last night.
Let me put the answer as bluntly as I know how.
You morons blew it.
So did USA Today and the Washington Post and the New
York Times.
lies who thought their loved ones had survived.
We didn’t see much of Geraldo after the truth became
known.
But what we did see was Fox going to their media guru, Eric
Burns, for a quick spot on how the rest of the media screwed
up.
OK, all together now, broadcasters.
When is news news?
Back when I started in the news business, the closest thing
we had to a 24 hour news channel was the local radio station which actually had a news department.
When it is verified and known to be the truth.
And it also had rules.
When you have verified that it is the truth.
Nobody put news on the air unless it was true and verified.
How long have those rules been in effect?
Apparently, the pressure of having to babble 24 hours a
day, seven days a week about whatever passes for current
events has removed any requirement that what goes on the
air actually be true. That’s OK when Bill O’Reilly is mediating an argument between an idiot liberal and an equally
idiotic conservative.
Since Marconi invented radio.
But it’s not OK when a tragedy is in progress and people
all over the world are hanging on every word being said on
your 24 hour news channel.
And how dumb is any newspaper who printed the
story?
News isn’t news until it is true.
And this isn’t the first time the news media blew it so obviously.
When do you put news on the air?
How stupid does any broadcast outlet look who fell
into running a story that flat out was not true?
Really, really stupid.
Really, really dumb.
There is a difference between a legitimate mistake and the
rampant incompetence-which was certainly on display in
West Virginia on January 3 and 4.
It’ll be a long time before anybody really believes what they
see on a 24 hour news channel—of whatever political stripe.
And, hopefully, it will be a long time before anybody who
reads the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA
Today doesn’t also refer to a real newspaper to find out the
Most of us who have been in this business for awhile know real truth.
all about body counts. They’re rarely ever accurate and cerFRED WEINBERG
tainly never while the event is in progress. But that didn’t
stop Geraldo and his buds from interviewing all of the famiRemember the 12,000 people who were supposed to be dead
in New Orleans because an idiot mayor whose credibility had
already been subject to scrutiny was quoted by the media?
And on 9-11, they were talking about 50,000 dead.
THE PENNY PRESS, JANUARY 5, 2006 PAGE 7
Commentary: Doug French
Continued from page 4
lists 74 projects, totaling 44,509 units. Twenty-four (24) are under construction, another 21 are pre-selling and there are 29 in the idea stage.
Many of the hotel operators have entered the condo craze. In fact, at
the recent gaming conference held in Las Vegas, one of the seminars was
entitled: “The future of gaming – non-gaming.” It used to be that the most
expensive land in town was casino dirt. Now, for new resort properties to
“pencil” you must have a residential and retail component. “You cannot
(make) a stand-alone casino on Las Vegas Boulevard (work financially),”
Vegas real estate expert Richard Lee said recently. “Unless you add a residential and retail component to it, you cannot afford the dirt on Las Vegas
Boulevard.”
Fifteen billion dollars of development is scheduled for the Las Vegas
strip over the next five years. The largest is the $5 billion Project CityCenter
by MGM Mirage, which will include 4,250 condo units in its two phases.
CityCenter will total 66 acres and include two boutique hotels and 500,000
square feet of retail space. The first stage of CityCenter has broken ground,
an employee parking garage that will hold 5,300 cars.
The Cosmopolitan project (located next to Project CityCenter) broke
ground in late October and will have 2,700 condo units priced from
$500,000 to $1.3 million. The Las Ramblas project will cost $3 billion and
have 4,400 units. By the way, two of the partners in Las Ramblas are heart
throb George Clooney and Randy Gerber (Mr. Cindy Crawford).
Speaking of celebrities, they haven’t had much luck so far with highrise projects. Air Jordon couldn’t get his Aqua Blue off the ground, and
Ivana Trump’s project can’t seem to attract financing. However, Ivana’s exhusband, The Donald has a project under construction totaling 2,564 units
priced at a $1,000 per square foot.
Many of these high-rise developers claim they are sold out. In fact,
according to Larry Murphy at SalesTraq, the average price per square foot
has increased 59 percent from $342/sf in the 1st quarter of 2004 to $544/sf
this past third quarter.
But just who is buying these units? Are high-time preference baby
boomers wanting to leave suburbia and live in cramped high-rise units, but
within walking distance of their favorite gaming opportunity, high dollar
dining experience and shopping binge? Maybe.
But, I’m a little skeptical. One banquet captain I know told me a couple
weeks ago he had deposits down on four high-rise units. Of course he
doesn’t intend to move into any of these, but he whispered to me, “you
know they will only go up in price.”
Tom Barrack, dubbed the “King of Real Estate” in a recent Fortune
magazine article believes the condo market is an accident waiting to happen.
He sites rising construction costs as the catalyst. In hotspots like Miami and
Las Vegas, projects sporting lots of pre-sales, when the units are actually
built, developers will realize that it costs as much to build the units as they
have them sold for. The developers will then try to raise prices, “but most
of these buyers are speculators,” Barrack told Fortune. “They [the buyers]
will either sue the developers to get the original prices or get their deposits
back and walk away.”
This has already happened with a couple of projects in Las Vegas.
For instance the Vegas Grand project has upped its prices from starting
at $139,900 to starting in the mid- $400,000’s. According to SalesTraq’s
Murphy no one realized just how expensive it is to build high-rise condos.
Las Vegas will continue to be catnip to our high-time preference society,
but there are signs of weakness for the near future. Even local Vegas housing expert Stephen Bottfeld, who is terminally bullish on the city, sees a
softening and says the boom is over for now. While the rest of county will
be mired in what he calls “a Jimmy Carter–like recession,” Bottfeld believes
Vegas will only muddle along.
In the brand new Aliente master planned community, 65 investor homes
have gone into foreclosure. Jerry Brady, a California investor who owns
four of these homes, decided to let them go to foreclosure, after his attempt
to sue Pulte Homes for lowering its prices was stalled. Joella Roach recently
wrote in a letter-to-the-editor published in the Las Vegas Review Journal
that her realtor advised her that the home she bought a year ago should only
be listed for $5,000 less than she paid for it if she wished to sell it. She’s
not happy.
There is a plentiful supply of resale homes on the market with over
15,000 listings on the multiple listing service. When the market was at a
fever pitch in April of 2004, there were less than 2,500 listings.
It is currently estimated that there is a 6-month supply of new homes
on the market, as opposed to a year and a half ago when there were no
new homes to buy and waiting lists thousands of people deep. And, for the
first time in a couple years, sales office traffic is trending down as we head
toward the holiday season, returning to the days when few homes are sold
in Las Vegas between Veterans Day and Super Bowl Sunday.
The Las Vegas division president for one national homebuilder told me
sales are slow. He indicates that sales are half what was projected and cancellations are high in all prices ranges. Buyers are skittish with all of this
bubble talk he says.
One local homebuilder, who sold his company a year ago to a national
builder, calls the Las Vegas real estate market dangerous.
And one commercial developer I spoke with recently, who has made a
fortune developing in Las Vegas over the past decade, has moved virtually
all of his activity to Phoenix and Texas. He calls those developers trying to
make high Vegas land prices work suckers.
But while there are some signs of softening: Through September, new
home sales totaled 27,374, an increase of 28.6 percent from a year ago. At
the same time the new home median price (excluding condo conversions)
was $327,276 up 17.3 percent from last year. The existing home median
price at $285,000 was up 14 percent from 2004.
Some residential land in Las Vegas is even selling for $1 million dollars
per acre. In fact, two small residential parcels were sold at the recent BLM
auction for $1 million per acre.
The Las Vegas economy leads many people to think the boom will never
end.
One local homebuilder has started holding some of the homes they
build instead of selling them, believing their product will only continue to
increase in value. Having barely survived the early 1990’s California housing bust, you would think they’d know better.
And, a bank collection officer I know wants to change his compensation structure. Like most bankers, he is on commission for a large part of
his income. The more money he collects, the more money he makes. But,
there are not enough bad loans to collect right now he complains. I’ve tried
to convince him that he’s being shortsighted and that he likely will make
much more money in the next few years as numerous small business and
real estate borrowers run into trouble. However, he’s not convinced.
Commentators have been predicting Vegas’ demise for years. But,
democracy and big government play right into Las Vegas’s hand. The bigger
and more intrusive government becomes, the more time-preferences rise,
and Vegas seductively waits with open arms, waiting to exploit and cash in
on each and every person’s weakness, making it hard to bet that Vegas will
ever bust.
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5-8= Consumers Electronics Show (CES):
http://www.cesweb.org/default_flash.asp
6= First Friday Art District Tour. Info. at:
http://www.firstfriday-lasvegas.org/next.html
6-7= Celebration of the King’s Life - Cannery.
6-7= Jay Leno- The Mirage.
6-9= Spa,Pool & BBQ Show-Cashman Center.
6-11=David Copperfield- MGM Grand.
6-7= John Denver Tribute - Silverton.
7= NFL Wild Card Playoffs - All Sportsbooks.
9= Boardwalk closing to make way for huge “City Center” residential
and commercial project. Info on closing: http://www.lasvegassun.
com/sunbin/stories/commentary/2005/nov/20/519693510.html
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11= Siegfried & Roy. Airs at 8:00am ET-[Biography on A &E TV]
11= Budapest Festival Orchestra-Tho.& Mack.
11-14=Barry Manilow- Las Vegas Hilton.
12-18= Howie Mandel- MGM Grand.
13= Kenny Rogers - Buffalo Bill’s Primm, NV.
13-14= Tribute to Kiss - Cannery.
13-14= Jay Leno- The Mirage.
13-15= Paul Revere & The Raiders-Suncoast.
14= En Vogue - Silverton.
14= Joan Rivers - Tropicana.
14-15=Health & Fitness Expo-Cashman Ctr.
15= RUSSIA! The Majesty of the Tsars: Treasures from the Kremlin
Museum closes - Venetian Guggenheim Hermitage Museum.
16= Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
18= Aerosmith & Lenny Kravitz -MGM Grand Garden Arena.
18= Job Fair - Palace Station.
18-22= Disney On Ice “Finding Nemo” - Orleans Arena.
20= The Village People - Silverton.
20-21= Regis Philbin- Golden Nugget.
20-21= Ray Romano- The Mirage.
20-22= Rich Little - Suncoast.
21 = Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas and not Atlantic City Aladdin.[CMT-TV]
21= Lifehouse- Mandalay Bay House of Blues.
21= Herman’s Hermits - Silverton.
21=Keith Sweat- Texas Station.
21=Erik Morales vs. Manny Pacquiao - UNLV Thomas and Mack
Center.
22= Gun & Knife Show - Cashman Center.
27= Ricky Martin - Aladdin.
27= New nonstop jet-service starts from Santa Maria, CA Allegiant Air.
27-28= Bridal Expo - Cashman Center.
27-28= Jay Leno- The Mirage.
27-29= Sergio Mendes - Suncoast.
28= INXS- Mandalay Bay Events Center.
31-April 9= Elton John- Caesars Palace.
31= Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.” closes - Tropicana.
Jan.??= Opening of magician Steve Wyrick’s entertainment complex, featuring a brand new production show, as well as a new
dining, retail and nightlife experiences - Desert Passage Mall in
the Aladdin.
Jan.??= Major multi-million dollar renovations completed on the
lobby, porte-cochere, poker room and bar - Las Vegas Hilton.
FEBRUARY, 2006
==================
1= Air service starts from Lincoln-Neb. - Allegiant Air.
++++++++++
1= “Menopause, the Musical,” a parody set at a Bloomingdale’s
lingerie sale, opens in the Shimmer Lounge - Las Vegas Hilton.
++++++++++
1-5=Disney’s Beauty and the Beast- Aladdin.
++++++++++
2= Hotel San Remo becomes Hooters Casino Hotel. A Hooters
Beach Club and a Dan Marino Fine Foods & Spirits Restaurant are
planned. The property is undergoing a $60 million renovation and
remains open during construction. Info.: http://www.luxist.com/
entry/1234000037063350/
++++++++++
3= Coldplay - MGM Grand.
3= First Friday Art District Tour. Info. at: http://www.firstfridaylasvegas.org/next.html
4= George Strait - MGM Grand.
4= Havana Night Club contract ends. Will their contract be
extended? - Stardust.
++++++++++
4= George Strait- MGM Grand.
5= Football - Super Bowl XL - All Sportsbooks.
6-15=Howie Mandel- MGM Grand.
7-26= Jackie Mason- Stardust.
8-12= Everly Brothers- The Orleans.
9-12= Sportsmen’s Show - Cashman Center.
10-12= Gun & Knife Show - Mandalay Bay.
10-12= Debbie Reynolds- Suncoast.
11= Smokey Robinson- Green Valley Ranch.
11= Little River Band - Silverton.
11= George Jones- Texas Station.
12= Lady Luck closing for major renovations and will reopen in
early 2007.
14= Valentine’s Day.
15= “Hairspray”, the musical comedy phenomenon with Tony
Award winning numbers that made it a hit on Broadway opens
- Luxor.
++++++++++
15= Harlem Globetrotters - Orleans Arena.
15-19= Neil Sedaka- The Orleans.
16-26 Monday-Thursday.Mentalist Gerry McCambridge’s Show is
free with a one-drink minimum purchase inside Addison’s Lounge
and free tickets are available at the Rampart Rewards CenterRampart.
16-March 1= David Copperfield- MGM Grand.
17-18= Tribute to the Beatles - Cannery.
17-18= Brad Garrett- The Mirage.
17-19= Neville Brothers- Golden Nugget.
17-19=The Four Freshmen- Suncoast.
17-Mar.5= On Golden Pond - L.V. Little Theatre. www.lvlt.org
18= Boxing - Aladdin.
18= Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz- MGM Grand.
18= Twisted Sister - Silverton.
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THE PENNY PRESS, JANUARY 5, 2006 PAGE 9
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Commentary: Albert Thomas
Expense Ratios Are Nonsense
One of those investment counselors says, “I will take your money and
make you a profit every year, but I have a very hefty fee. For every dollar I
make you I will charge you a dollar”.
“How much will you make for me?”
He replies, “Because I invest in the stock market I am not sure what
each year will be, but I have a real time track record that I have doubled my
clients money every three years. If you start with $10,000 you should have
$20,000 three years from now.”
“In other words out of the $20,000 you make with my money you get
half? That seems like an awful lot.”
Mr. Money Manager asks, “Does it make any difference how much I
make if I can double your money?”
Here we are computing a 50% expense ratio. Who cares as long as he
doubles the money? When you talk to brokers when buying mutual funds
one of their pet talking points is that a particular fund has a very low expense
ratio. Who cares? The only thing that is important is the final return.
Does it make any difference if a fund has a 3.5% expense ratio or a 1%
expense ratio if the 3% fund makes more money? Of course not.
This is part of the Wall Street mystique designed to confuse clients.
Whatever mutual fund you choose it should be one that has the highest
return. When it is no longer going up, it should be switched to a better performing fund that is why you should only buy no-load funds. Full service
brokerage companies do not want to sell no-load funds.
Commissions are expenses, but brokers don’t talk about that. Do NOT
pay commission. Brokers will tell you that load (commission) funds are better than no-load funds. Not true. Get up and walk away from that broker. He
is lying. Be careful of certain types of mutual funds that will have several
classes of the same fund some of which have hidden commissions. Don’t
be afraid to ask. To be absolutely sure call the mutual fund company. They
all have toll free numbers.
There is only one way to make sense out of expenses and expense ratios
and that is the performance of the fund in relation to all other funds. First
eliminate commissions. All other expenses are apportioned over the year.
One other nasty charge funds have started adding is redemption fees. Most
are 2% and run out for long periods of time. These are added to discourage
selling; no other reason.
There is only one thing that distinguishes a “good” fund from any other.
It is going up while the investor owns it. If it doesn’t you should not have
it. When it starts down it should be sold and this has nothing to do with
expense ratios.
There is only one reason to own any equity and it has nothing to do with
expenses. It must go up.
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THE PENNY PRESS, JANUARY 5, 2006 PAGE 11
Commentary: Patrick Nohrden
Christmas In China
I just came back from my third Christmas in China. I have been back
from China now for about a year, after having lived there a year and a half
teaching English. This trip, and two previous ones, was necessitated by the
fact that the U.S. State Department still has not issued my wife a visa, a
problem which I hope will be resolved soon.
The first notable event was my train ride form Beijing to Jinzhou in
Liaoning Province, where my wife teaches math at a middle school. The
train was half full of young soldiers on their way to their initial assignments
in the far northeast of China, perhaps along the border with Russia and
North Korea. Most of the troop movements in China occur in December.
Many of the soldiers in their new uniforms were not more than fifteen years
old. My wife told me that they probably changed their birth dates in order
to join the army, and it is likely that their parents had enough influence or
money for that to happen. It is not easy to join the army in China. Although
it is the largest army in the world, it represents an extremely small fraction
of the 1.4 billion people living in China, so competition to enlist is difficult.
Poor students from rich or influential families will enter the army after
completing the ninth grade because they cannot enter high school, which is
reserved for only the best students.
One of the nice things about being in China in the few days leading
up to Christmas is that shopping is a bit easier. Although there are many
indications of Christmas throughout the shopping district, with displays of
Christmas trees, Christmas music playing in the background, paper Santa’s
in the windows, and a life-size mechanical Santa Claus singing “The Yellow
Rose of Texas,” people are not Christmas shopping. It is not a gift-exchanging holiday in China. Yet the Chinese are curious enough about the holiday to participate in some way. The Christmas carols are usually “Jingle
Bells,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.”
Occasionally you might hear a “religious” Christmas song, but it will be
without the words. One can only guess why the largest supermarket in
Jinzhou thinks that “The Yellow Rose of Texas” is a Christmas song.
Christmas is not a holiday in China. It is a workday and school day, and
the holiday is treated more as a distraction than anything else, much as we
treat Valentine’s Day or April Fool’s Day in the west. However, Christmas
Eve has somehow evolved into a community event.
We decided to eat in a restaurant on Christmas Eve, and there was a
new Chinese-style steakhouse in Jinzhou that I wanted to try only a few
blocks from my wife’s home. Walking down the street to the restaurant I
was amazed at the number of people that were out. Amongst the firework
vendors were apple vendors, all selling apples specially wrapped in decorated cellophane with a bow. The restaurants were packed and the volume
of fireworks was reminiscent of a war zone. Remarkably, none of the thousands of people on the street was hurt.
My wife explained that the apples were purchased as gifts and were
exchanged among friends and relatives on Christmas Eve. That is because
the Chinese people have come to consider Christmas Eve as “Peace Night.”
The word for “apple” in Chinese is ping gua. The Chinese word for “peace”
is he ping, or ping an (peace implying safety). Both “apple” and “peace” in
Chinese include the root ping, hence the apples.
When we arrived at the restaurant, it was packed, and we were told that
we would have at least a 40-minute wait, so we decided to take a walk while
waiting. Jinzhou has two churches that are licensed by the State Bureau
of Religious Affairs, both on the same block around the corner from the
restaurant. Out of curiosity, we walked over to the churches. The first was
the official Protestant church. A large crowd had gathered in front of the
church, barred from entering by gates held closed with a chain and padlock.
Surrounding the gates were more policemen in one spot than I had ever
before seen in China. They were there to help keep the people from entering the Church. Although the police will not let you take their photographs,
they will not stop people from taking photos of other people, even if they
happen to be standing near the policemen. So I left with a few photos.
We then walked a short distance down the block to the Chinese Catholic
church (the Roman Catholic Church is banned in China), where we found
the same situation. We squeezed through the crowd to the gate, only to find
it likewise locked. I asked my wife to ask one of the persons at the gate
why it was locked. The answer was typically Chinese, “Somebody lost the
keys.” Right. We left the front of the church and went around to the side
where we found a steel plate door with a peephole. This door had a small
crowd, as well, but my wife said something to somebody on the other side
of the door and it opened, allowing my wife, my stepdaughter, and me to
enter the church. Once inside, I learned that the people outside the church
could not come in because they were not registered with the government as
“Catholic.”
We were ushered upstairs to the large sanctuary where a mass was in
session. Although the church seemed crowded, and many poor people were
lining the walls along the side if the sanctuary, the first three or four rows
of pews were only half full. We were given a seat in the third row, while a
speech was being given by a woman at the lectern. From time to time she
would say a name, and a person sitting in one of the first three rows would
stand and be applauded. I felt uneasy about sitting so near the front, especially since I did not know what was being said and because I was certainly
no dignitary.
While in church, the choir in a loft began signing “Silent Night” in
Chinese, and I felt an immediate comfort. As they sang, I looked around
and counted each of the Stations of the Cross and viewed the various artworks of biblical subjects. It was almost like being in church at home,
except that there were no candles, the church substituting small light bulbs
instead. I could only think about the hundreds of people standing outside
in the cold wanting to come in to see what Christmas was all about, and the
numerous policemen keeping them away. I thought about the many Roman
Catholic priests, protestant ministers, and Muslim clerics that are languishing in prisons throughout China or on house arrest. I thought about the
freedoms we have in America. I thought about my right to write this article
and say anything I want. More importantly, I thought about the apples that
were being exchanged on that cold night in the streets of Jinzhou.
Peace!
PATRICK NORHDEN
www.LasVegasCrooks.com
www.pennypresslv.com
THE PENNY PRESS, JANUARY 5, 2006 PAGE 12
Commentary: Joyce Meyer
Be A Person Of
Purpose
Do you ever feel as if life is passing you by in a blur? Does it seem as
though you’re doing a lot of things
but you don’t know what you’re
accomplishing? I’ve been there, and
I can tell you that these feelings are
the result of your time managing you
instead of you managing your time.
I lived with those feelings for a
long time, but over the years God
taught me some very helpful guidelines to show me how to make the
most of the time He’s given me. I
believe these keys can be a blessing
to you as well.
One of the first things you and I
need to learn is to live our lives on
purpose and not off purpose. Instead
of allowing insignificant things to
distract us from our real priorities,
we must make up our minds to stay
focused on what God has called us
to do.
I believe one of the easiest things
to get entangled in is doing good
things that we’re not called to do.
For example, in the early days of my
ministry when I saw other ministers
operating in different gifts of the
Spirit, I wanted to be able to do a
little of everything they were doing.
It wasn’t long before I became very
discouraged and frustrated because
I couldn’t do it all. Thankfully, God
showed me that I was trying to do
what He had called them to do—I
was trying to make something happen that He had never called me or
anointed me to do. God didn’t want
me to compare myself to or compete
with other ministries. He just wanted
me to fulfill His call on my life and
to be the best me that I could be.
When we try to do something
other than what we are called to do,
we lose time, energy, and end up
feeling miserable. Ephesians 5:15
says, Look carefully then how you
walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise
and witless, but as wise (sensible,
intelligent people). God has a specific call on each of our lives, and to
carry out that call, He has equipped
us with unique gifts and talents (see
Romans 12:6-8).
Once we know what we are
called to do, we must invest the
majority of our time and energy into
that thing. Many years ago as I was
praying, God told me, “I want you to
work toward devoting most of your
time to study, prayer, preaching,
teaching and writing.” Since that
time I have made a plan to fulfill His
direction, and I’ve worked the plan.
Now, I don’t believe that we
should be so focused on our plan
that we are rude to others or that we
won’t allow the Lord to interrupt it.
But we shouldn’t be living vague
lives—going day-to-day just waiting
to see what happens.
Ephesians 5:17 says, Therefore
do not be vague and thoughtless
and foolish, but understanding and
firmly grasping what the will of the
Lord is. I believe that as we stay on
purpose instead of off purpose, we
will find both contentment and fulfillment in everything we do.
I encourage you to be a person
of purpose and give yourself to the
things God has called you to do. And
by all means, take time to enjoy the
abundant life God has given you. As
you daily surrender your schedule to
the Holy Spirit, He will give you the
grace to manage your time wisely.
JOYCE MEYER
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Commentary: Brent Jordan
Nobody Could Be
That Stupid?
A man is adrift in a wooden life
boat somewhere on the vast ocean.
It is chilly out. The man decides to
burn the boat for fire wood. After
burning his life boat, as he is drowning, he wonders on the wisdom of
his decision.
No one could be that stupid, you
say.
Allow me to introduce you to
Tony Dane.
Tony Dane would like to raise
the gaming tax on Nevada casinos
to 18.25%.
The depth and breath of human
stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
Who is this Tony Dane moron,
and how does he remember to
breathe every day?
What’s more, this Dane clown
is seeking the signatures of 83,000
Nevadans to get his insane initiative
on the ballot. Sadly, he will probably
find a couple of thousand as equally
stupid as he is to sign, even though
Dane just announced the initiative
is “on hold”, whatever that means.
(I’m pretty sure where he could get
his first signature. Just give him
Steve Sebelius’ address.)
Thomas Mitchell, and the editorial board at the Review Journal,
considers this proposal punishing,
crippling, and ill-thought-out; killing
the golden goose. But then, Thomas
Mitchell has always been far too
gentile and generous.
Tripling the casino gaming tax
is the single most idiotic notion anyone could possibly come up with for
Nevada.
This is what happens when you
outlaw public floggings for subversive behavior.
Of course the outrageous18.25%
number is probably just one of those
political maneuvers to make the
12% Dane will eventually settle on,
look fair. A little like a gas station
raising the price of a gallon of gas
from $2.00 to $3.00, then lowering it
back down to $2.50 per gallon (look,
we’re saving fifty cents a gallon!).
12% doesn’t look fair to me. It
looks like the rape of a legitimate
business and industry (which already
pays my state income tax, thank you
very much). And I’m just guessing
at the 12% number. God help us if
Dane is serious about 18.25%.
Lets get down to facts: Why is
Las Vegas anything more than a 300
person mining town with one gas
station, one general store, and one
bar? It is because of the casinos.
Period. End of story.
Without the casinos, Las Vegas
is a way station, on the way to somewhere else.
Now, let’s explore what should
be another self-evident fact: Why do
the casinos stay here in Las Vegas, in
the middle of one of the nastiest deserts on the planet? It is the business
environment that keeps them here.
Apparently Tony Dane got his
18.25% gaming tax number by averaging the gaming tax on casinos in
other parts of the country, then tacking on a couple of percentage points
for good measure.
Hey, moron, if the gaming
tax were higher, or even the same
as other parts of the country, say
California, wouldn’t the casinos just
go there to do business? Of course
they would.
Most states now allow gaming
of one sort or another. Nevada is no
longer unique. Most of those states
are looking at the revenue generated by casino type gaming, and are
beginning to see the light (or allowing their greed to overcome their
high-horse moral posturing).
Imagine, for example, the Gulf
States that were ravaged by hurricanes this past year, and have languished in the depression brought on
by liberal, socialist values of their
lawmakers. Imagine if those lawmakers, in a moment of reason and
rational (capitalist) thinking, allowed
an open and free market for casinos.
The only thing that would prevent
Las Vegas casinos relocating––en
masse––to the gulf states, would be
their obnoxiously high tax rates and
even more obnoxiously corrupt state
and local governments which add to
the tax rate.
Think of all the businesses that
moved from California. Think of
all the people that followed. Think
of what it has meant for Las Vegas
growth, status, tax base, property
value.... Think, Mr. Dane. Think.
Businesses evacuated California
because they were being taxed to
death.
Those who forget history are
doomed to repeat it.
Or maybe Hegel was right when
he said the only thing we have ever
learned from history is that we never
learn anything from history.
40 million visitors come through
McCarran airport each year. One
can only guess at the number that
drive here from California and other
neighboring states. (Try getting on
highway 15 on the day following
Labor Day weekend, and start counting.) There are only about a million
and a half residents of Las Vegas.
It doesn’t take a math wiz to figure
out people are coming here for the
casinos from other places. Wouldn’t
it make good business sense to move
the casinos to those “other places”
where the people are coming from?
Raise the gaming tax, and that’s
exactly what will happen.
Make no mistake, no matter
what you do for a living (with the
possible exception of mining) your
life here in Nevada is wholly dependent upon the casino gaming industry. Grocery store clerk, post office
employee, hair and nail technician,
street sweeper, construction worker,
politician, police officer, op-ed journalist...none of these jobs exist without the casinos.
Of course we could end the
water shortage, teacher shortage,
traffic congestion, road construction problems, high home values,
political corruption, cabdriver / strip
club extortion debate...all in one fell
swoop. Raise casino gaming taxes
enough to force the casinos to relocate, and POOF! All those problems
disappear––along with Las Vegas.
I’ve got a better idea: How many
signatures would it take to deport
Tony Dane (and Steve Sebelius,
while we are at it), and all the other
pseudo-socialists who are thinking
of signing this idiotic measure, to
somewhere where their ideals make
more sense; say Cuba, or North
Korea...?
BRENT KENTON JORDAN
THE PENNY PRESS, JANUARY 5, 2006 PAGE 15
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