Steve Wynn's take on the world

[Ben_Hecht]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-illinois-10th-casino-opens-in-des-plaines-20110718,0,6130026.story

Opening of a new casino in Chicago this week is so strong, they ask people stay away.

These are average joes.

If they don't own stocks, but want to, its a them problem, not my fault.


I hate those kind of stats that Devil93 throws up there. "X% of people don't own stocks"...
There is a large percentage of Americans who won't do a damn thing but stuff themselves with Cheetos unless you hold them by the hand.

They should have built it on the Arlington Park property.

Too bad.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Meanwhile Wynn Resorts' stock has more than doubled in the last year.

True. But if you bought the stock in the fall of '08, you haven't made a dime.

If by '08 you mean '07, and by not made a dime you mean did make a quarter, then you are correct.

 

[hondo]

If Steve Wynn feels the economic climate is conducive to investing and building and developing more, it creates jobs. If he doesn't, it won't.

How hard is that for some of you to understand?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Some of us place a higher value on individual human rights than do others.

 

[LongTimeListener]

If Steve Wynn feels the economic climate is conducive to investing and building and developing more, it creates jobs. If he doesn't, it won't.

How hard is that for some of you to understand?

The Bush economy, whose return Wynn is advocating, was supposedly the one conducive to investing and building and developing more. American jobs disappeared by the millions. How hard is that for you to understand?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

It would be well to not overlook that factor which we may not be able to do much about, but which has done severe damage to the domestic middle class -- globalization.

 

[poindexter]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that this is part of the adult american population who doesn't own any stocks
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/07/harry-potter-deathly-hallows-movie-theaters-showtimes-opening-imax-fans-radcliffe.html

We have a lot of people in this country who find other things more interesting than saving for their future, or investing.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Wynn's investments in China/Macau is what's driving his company's profits.

So, it's quite reasonable for him to be making big profits and still be bitching about the regulatory environment here.

I wonder how much of the drag on U.S. profits is related to Wynn building multiple phallic symbols in honor of himself at a time when Vegas was clearly pushing the edges and getting too big already. No, that couldn't have anything to do with it.

Nah, casino owners never make mistakes. Just ask 'em.

 

[playthrough]

Sadly, his most outrageous comment from that rant might be that "(Las Vegas') best days are ahead of it." And I love Vegas.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Sadly, his most outrageous comment from that rant might be that "(Las Vegas') best days are ahead of it." And I love Vegas.

Anything's possible . . . but the town's still 'way overbuilt, and there are other bull stories I'd rather jump onto than that one. Crime's 'way up, and the labor situation's horrendous.

And I'm another who maintains a long-term fondness for Vegas, above all the other non-Founding-Cradles-of-American-Jazz outposts throughout this great land . . .

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Sadly, his most outrageous comment from that rant might be that "(Las Vegas') best days are ahead of it." And I love Vegas.

Anything's possible . . . but the town's still 'way overbuilt, and there are other bull stories I'd rather jump onto than that one. Crime's 'way up, and the labor situation's horrendous.

And I'm another who maintains a long-term fondness for Vegas, above all the other non-Founding-Cradles-of-American-Jazz outposts throughout this great land . . .

I've not been back to Vegas since the bastards imploded the Stardust. I don't know if I could bear to stay at another place.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Sadly, his most outrageous comment from that rant might be that "(Las Vegas') best days are ahead of it." And I love Vegas.

Anything's possible . . . but the town's still 'way overbuilt, and there are other bull stories I'd rather jump onto than that one. Crime's 'way up, and the labor situation's horrendous.

And I'm another who maintains a long-term fondness for Vegas, above all the other non-Founding-Cradles-of-American-Jazz outposts throughout this great land . . .

I've not been back to Vegas since the bastards imploded the Stardust. I don't know if I could bear to stay at another place.

Orleans comes closest to the Stardust feel, currently. Embalmed performers in the showroom, and Bob Scucci behind the sports counter.