Katherine Sayre
Gambling Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ gambling reporter. Co-author of “Happy at Any Cost” about former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
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1 week ago |
elpasoinc.com | Joe Wallace |Katherine Sayre
In the spring of 2023, a London banker-turned-bookmaker reached out to a few contacts with an audacious request: Can you help me take down the Texas lottery? Bernard Marantelli had a plan in mind. He and his partners would buy nearly every possible number in a coming drawing. There were 25.8 million potential number combinations. The tickets were $1 apiece. The jackpot was heading to $95 million. If nobody else also picked the winning numbers, the profit would be nearly $60 million.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Joe Wallace |Katherine Sayre
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Joe Wallace |Katherine Sayre
The Dallas Wings are certain to make Paige Bueckers the No. 1 overall pick in Monday’s WNBA Draft. They have been waiting for the moment for quite a …
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Katherine Sayre
During the 2008-09 economic downturn, Las Vegas was one of the hardest-hit metro areas. (William Volcov/Zuma Press)The glitzy casinos of Las Vegas have a rolling bet on a healthy national economy. The fate of Nevada’s tourism economy is wound tightly to consumer confidence for spending on airfare, hotels, slot machines, blackjack tables and shows. JP Morgan analysts recently raised their forecast for a global recession this year to 60% in the wake of last week’s tariff announcement.
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3 weeks ago |
editorandpublisher.com | Katherine Sayre
The 92 community newspapers Jeremy Gulban owns across the U.S. bear a plea on their websites: “Don’t let our newspaper die! Subscribe today.” Many are losing money. Lately, even paying for the paper they are printed on is a burden as a result of looming tariffs. Gulban, the 50-year-old head of a family-founded IT company in New Jersey, is discovering in ways large and small just how hard it is to revive America’s ailing local news outlets. Click here to read more.
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