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Down and out in Las Vegas
The good-time capital of the US has hit a losing streak.
Guy Adams reports on an epidemic of bankruptcies, foreclosures and mass lay-offs
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Since the day Las Vegas was created in the shimmering Nevada desert, visitors have been drawn by one simple promise: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". The motto adorns the city's road signs, and has inspired everything from its souvenir T-shirts to the local tourist board's seductive advertising campaigns.
These days, that motto is imbued with a worrying sense of irony. Because America's most outrageous city is facing a growing multitude of problems, and they all boil down to a single, unavoidable point: right now, far too little happens in Vegas, because not enough people are actually staying there.
MORE- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/down-and-out-in-las-vegas-860513.html (Archive copy)