This Restaurants Closure Saddens Me

Landry’s Seafood House Shutters on the Westside 

Even more changes for the local Landry’s empire

Even those who never dined at Landry’s Seafood House can’t miss the neon signage facing its more famous neighbor, Palace Station resort. Self-described as the “flagship restaurant” concept in the Landry's Inc. portfolio and despite years of service, the steak and seafood restaurant has now shuttered on Sahara Avenue.

A replacement for the substantial restaurant space has not been announced.

The closure follows a series of local overhauls by the corporation. Both locations of Joe’s Crab Shack have now shuttered, less than two months after the chain was acquired by Landry’s. And McCormick & Schmick’s vanished at the Hughes Center in September, to be quickly replaced by moving another of its restaurants, Claim Jumper, over from Town Square.

(Vegas.Eater.com)

Some Damn Good Financial Questions

I'm a financial planner — here are the 7 questions my richest clients ask

Do I really have enough?

No matter the size of their nest eggs, the rich worry about having enough money to get through old age while also leaving a legacy behind. They worry about the future costs of nursing home care, whether their life insurance policies are sufficient (and aligned with their financial goals), about inflation, and how the world might change in the next ten, twenty, or thirty years.

How do I preserve capital?

If you're young and an average earner, many financial professionals would advise you to dial up your level of risk — especially in the stock market — to help grow early wealth that will compound over time. But what if you're already rich? What if you've been working decades and want to continue growing wealth without putting too much on the line?

A lot of my clients think just as much about preserving capital as they do about growing it. They already know how to make money, but they worry endlessly over how to keep it.

In these cases, I help them preserve their cash with an array of financial products that can include high-interest savings accounts, municipal bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, and sometimes even annuities. Of course, the right strategy for every rich family is different and depends on an array of factors including their ages, how much wealth they have, and how long they need it to last.

(BusinessInsider.com)

It's Just That Simple

Your day has been neither this challenging nor this significant. Now man the hell up and get back to it.

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Talk About Going The Extra Mile & Then Some

Why Japan Buys So Few American Cars

Dealers really are your friends in Japan—you know, as opposed to some schmuck pretending to be your friend in hopes that you’ll sign up for a bunch of unnecessary twaddle he’d like to tack on to your purchase. In Japan, that extra maintenance package Schmuck’s Auto Sales loves to push is probably even free thanks to their dealership model.

Japanese customers have gotten used to this extra hospitality, which has allowed Japan’s home-grown automakers stay ahead despite Japan backing off from most of its highly protectionist policies starting in the 1970s.

However, American automakers have been reluctant to sell cars in Japan the way Japanese consumers want to buy them, The Atlantic notes. Dealership networks aren’t as strong for foreign cars in Japan, and Ford even pulled out of Japan entirely.
(Jalopnik.com)

I'm Just Going To Leave This Here

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