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Macau casino revenues fell by 9.5% on a year-on-year basis in April 2016 to $2.2 billion, according to data from Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau. This marks the twenty-third consecutive month of declines. Macau’s casinos have been
Daniel Kahneman: The Psychologist who won a Nobel Prize for Economics
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Michigan’s Gun Lake Casino to Double its Size with a $76 Million Expansion
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Moral Hazard and the Global Financial Crisis
Competition produces efficient outcomes when certain conditions hold. One of these is that all the agents involved have all the information that they need. However, in the real world, one often observes asymmetric information; the existence of asymmetric
Mohegan Sun Group Wins License to Open Casino in South Korea
The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, along with KCC Corp, a South Korean chemicals manufacturer, won a bid to develop the Inspire Integrated Resort at Incheon, located west of Seoul, the capital city of South Korea. The Inspire Integrated Resort
MGM Resorts International Delays Opening of New Macau Resort to 2017
MGM Resorts International has decided to delay the opening of its new resort in the Cotai district of Macau, due to gloomy market conditions. Gross gambling revenues in Macau fell 34% in 2015, to a five-year low of $28.8 billion from a year ago,
Apple vs the FBI – A Case of Privacy vs Security
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Sharad Joshi: An Economist Who Worked for India’s Farmers
Exiting 2015, India lost one of her free market champions, Sharad Anantarao Joshi. At a time when farmer suicides are becoming rampant across the nation, someone like Joshi, with his ideas for agriculture, will be sorely missed. Many have called
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Rakesh Wadhwa. Ever since, I was a school boy, I knew India was on the wrong path. Socialism was just not what we needed to get ahead. Government controlled our travel; government controlled our ability to buy and sell; and government controlled our freedom to move our money. My life has focused on the inherent rights people have. When I was in college, I never understood, what the governments meant by their "socialistic attitude". If people are free to buy, sell and move their capital themselves without any restrictions by state, then the welfare of people is inevitable & hence the countries they live in will become wealthy. The government has no right whatsoever, to point a finger at me or my business. I am not a revolutionary. I just want to light up my cigarette and not get nagged about it. I believe in non-interfering attitude to attain more. 
The Bastiat Award is a journalism award, given annually by the International Policy Network, London. Bastiat Prize entries are judged on intellectual content, the persuasiveness of the language used and the type of publication in which they appear. Rakesh Wadhwa won the 3rd prize (a cash award of $1,000 and a candlestick), in 2006.
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