New York Times: Vegas faces its deepest slide since the 1940s

Sun, Oct 3, 2010 (6:15 p.m.)

There are many cities across the country that are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the recession.

This is not one of them.

The nation’s gambling capital is staggering under a confluence of economic forces that has sent Las Vegas into what officials describe as its deepest economic rut since casinos first began rising in the desert here in the 1940s.

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