One of the more successful tech startups on Wall Street these days is Robinhood, a phone app that allows inexperienced investors to jump into stock trading. The come-on is that the trades are free. Naturally, there is no free lunch in investing, aside from diversification, as investing legend Burt Malkiel […]
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Las Vegas Raiders at Denver Broncos odds, picks and prediction
The Las Vegas Raiders (7-8) will close out the season on the road Sunday against the Denver Broncos (5-10) in an AFC West clash. Both teams have been eliminated from playoff contention, so pride and draft positioning are on the line this weekend. Kickoff is set for 4:25 p.m. ET […]
Tony Hsieh is gone, but his Las Vegas vision is finding new life
Tony Hsieh speaks at a conference in Las Vegas. The former Zappos chief executive, who died after being trapped in a fire in November, transformed the city in ways that are helping it attract a new wave of tech workers. (Charley Gallay / Getty Images) Tony Hsieh had ambitions that […]
Tony Hsieh: Las Vegas honors late entrepreneur’s legacy
Tony Hsieh always fantasized about making money. As a kid, he did garage sales, sold custom buttons, took on a paper route and, after he quit that job, started his own newsletter. Hsieh went on to much bigger undertakings and left an especially big mark on his adopted hometown of […]
Vegas signs Alex Pietrangelo to seven-year, $61.6M contract
Alex Pietrangelo is Vegas bound, and the Golden Knights are shuffling the deck to fit him in. Pietrangelo signed a $61.6 million, seven-year deal with Vegas on Monday that carries an $8.8 million annual salary cap hit through 2027. It’s the fifth-biggest cap hit for a defenseman in the NHL. […]
Vegas signs Alex Pietrangelo to $61.6M, seven-year contract
FILE – In this Feb. 16, 2020, file photo, St. Louis Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo plays against the Nashville Predators in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Nashville, Tenn. The Vegas Golden Knights have agreed to terms on a $61.6 million, seven-year contract with top free agent […]
Vegas entertainers Murray Sawchuck, Dani Elizabeth digging new COVID options
Note: Today’s column is the latest in the series “Surviving Shutdown,” examining the effect of COVID-19 on the Las Vegas entertainment industry. He’s the Magic Man who can make your weeds disappear. She can work topless or work the topsoil. Murray Sawchuck of Laugh Factory at the Tropicana and Dani […]
Online Betting, Big Winner As Coronavirus Shuts Down Las Vegas
UNITED STATES—Vegas is hurting. Sadly that’s not because a plane load of high rolling Japanese and Russian industrialists have arrived and spun-up a couple of hundred million in the exclusive Salon Privé areas of the Bellagio, Venetian and Aria Casino. It is because people are simply not travelling to Sin City. […]
What’s open, what’s closed this weekend in Las Vegas
LA cracks down on ‘nightclub’ house; Las Vegas casinos could be inflaming COVID spread; Florida marks 10K deaths
As COVID-19 outbreaks at schools continue to pop up causing students and staff in some states to quarantine, a new study suggests that children may play a larger role in community spread of the new virus than previously thought. Researchers in Massachusetts found that some children who tested positive for […]