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Title: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: smurf on January 15, 2015, 06:13:34 PM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102340128#.

How on earth do you get $18 billion in to debt...who, what, why would any corporation/bank continue to support a firm to the tune of $18,000,000,000...surely at some stage some one some where says enough is enough long before it gets that bad.

crazy world


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: George2Loose on January 15, 2015, 06:33:48 PM
Thought Harrahs owned Caesars?


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: KarmaDope on January 15, 2015, 06:37:27 PM
Thought Harrahs owned Caesars?

Harrah's ARE Caesars. Hedge funds or something like that bought Harrah's and renamed it Caesars.


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: redsimon on January 15, 2015, 06:41:29 PM
I guess you get so deep in debt by using a leveraged buy out to buy Harrah's and rename it Caesars'?


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: The Camel on January 15, 2015, 06:50:53 PM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102340128#.

How on earth do you get $18 billion in to debt...who, what, why would any corporation/bank continue to support a firm to the tune of $18,000,000,000...surely at some stage some one some where says enough is enough long before it gets that bad.

crazy world

It's the old saying "if you owe the bank £20,000 the bank owns you. If you owe the bank £2,000,000,000 you own the bank"


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: Jon MW on January 15, 2015, 07:06:32 PM
I guess you get so deep in debt by using a leveraged buy out to buy Harrah's and rename it Caesars'?

This, I think all their need for re-financing now comes from when they got taken over


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: Karabiner on January 15, 2015, 07:20:33 PM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102340128#.

How on earth do you get $18 billion in to debt...who, what, why would any corporation/bank continue to support a firm to the tune of $18,000,000,000...surely at some stage some one some where says enough is enough long before it gets that bad.

crazy world

It's the old saying "if you owe the bank £20,000 the bank owns you. If you owe the bank £2,000,000,000 you own the bank"

Just the seven zeros to go for me then.


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: Royal Flush on January 15, 2015, 07:34:02 PM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102340128#.

How on earth do you get $18 billion in to debt...who, what, why would any corporation/bank continue to support a firm to the tune of $18,000,000,000...surely at some stage some one some where says enough is enough long before it gets that bad.

crazy world

It's the old saying "if you owe the bank £20,000 the bank owns you. If you owe the bank £2,000,000,000 you own the bank"

Just the seven zeros to go for me then.

mbn


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: OverTheBorder on January 15, 2015, 11:42:41 PM
I found myself wondering in vegas how the hell a casino can lose.  However, having then realised by the size of the staff car parks, just how much it takes to keep one of those big casinos going.  How many rooms are now in vegas compared to 15 years ago?  Every hotel is super sized, much bigger than the one it replaced.

I assume they get rescued soon(ish)?


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: tikay on January 16, 2015, 12:18:44 AM
I found myself wondering in vegas how the hell a casino can lose.  However, having then realised by the size of the staff car parks, just how much it takes to keep one of those big casinos going.  How many rooms are now in vegas compared to 15 years ago?  Every hotel is super sized, much bigger than the one it replaced.

I assume they get rescued soon(ish)?

They won't need "rescuing" as such, it's a Chapter 11 thing (which is peculiar to the USA) for "bankruptcy protection".

In effect, they have now reduced their debt by stuffing junior debt.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/46ffda10-9cd3-11e4-adf3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3Ow9HGE91


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: OverTheBorder on January 16, 2015, 01:52:56 PM
I found myself wondering in vegas how the hell a casino can lose.  However, having then realised by the size of the staff car parks, just how much it takes to keep one of those big casinos going.  How many rooms are now in vegas compared to 15 years ago?  Every hotel is super sized, much bigger than the one it replaced.

I assume they get rescued soon(ish)?

They won't need "rescuing" as such, it's a Chapter 11 thing (which is peculiar to the USA) for "bankruptcy protection".

In effect, they have now reduced their debt by stuffing junior debt.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/46ffda10-9cd3-11e4-adf3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3Ow9HGE91


Ah, chapter 11! I do feel that Harrahs hotels tend to be the only ones that retain the old vegas feel.  The new hotels are all too nice for my liking!


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: SuuPRlim on January 16, 2015, 05:21:46 PM

How on earth do you get $18 billion in to debt...who, what, why would any corporation/bank continue to support a firm to the tune of $18,000,000,000...surely at some stage some one some where says enough is enough long before it gets that bad.

crazy world

Fairly sure that isn't $18billion of operating debt, if they'd lost $18billion operating then that would be quite a bad coup! I think lenders on this scale are generally more concerned with your ability to service the debt, over the total amount owed to creditors (although that's certainly not irrelevant!) if you owe $1billion, want to borrow another billion and have the means to pay it back then that's much better than owing £40k and no means to service it :)

These people are buying and selling money, not borrowing or lending it.


Title: Re: Caesars Palace owners file for bankrupcy
Post by: Rupert on January 16, 2015, 05:58:09 PM
vig joke