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OPINION – The GDP statistics must be rethought

Before starting this article, I would like to refer to the wonderful work the DSEC...

The problem of positive discrimination

There is an issue that is fundamental for me: that whoever participates in the development...

Particularities

1. My forecasts pointed to inflation in August of between 1.15 and 1.17 per cent....

The meaning of a free economy

Once upon a time there was a city that saw it’s pockets begin to fill...

Fairy Tales

When the exchange market is attacked by speculators, economies intervene through their monetary authorities. It happens...

A city more walled-in and frightened …

1. We have witnessed in this city, more and more walling-in about the “small deviation”...

Everything as expected

1. On June27, when it was learned that last May’s inflation was 1.37 per cent,...

Transparency is needed!

The DSEC (Statistics and Census Service) makes available two simple aggregate information lines on CPI...

Events difficult to forecast

1. I remember that my forecast for inflation in June in Macau is that it...

The closing of the Canidrome!

When, about six years ago, I was confronted with the situation of the greyhounds at...

Our beautiful prices

We are witnessing a downward trend in (official) inflation in Macau, measured by the average...

Integration

1. Let me remind that those who create diversification are not the government but the...

The world warms up!

The election of Trump is a lesson that serves to humiliate the U.S. itself. ...

The Macau’s GDP has grown again!

Macau’s GDP statistics for the first quarter of 2017 reflect the expected growth trend. In the...
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Middle East tensions weigh on markets

Global oil and gold prices shot higher Friday as worries mounted about the conflict in...

Israel in deal with Qatar to get medicines to Gaza hostages

Israel negotiated a deal with Qatar to get medicines through to hostages still being held...

Growing drought, wildfires impact Canada’s Q2 economy

Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) by industry was essentially unchanged in the second quarter...

Wagner chief asks Moscow to hand Bakhmut positions to Chechen forces

The chief of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner on Saturday asked Moscow to let him...

Canada, Denmark settle ‘whiskey war’ over Arctic island

Canada and Denmark on Tuesday finally settled the largely good-natured "whiskey war" that was fought...

OPINION – The GDP statistics must be rethought

Before starting this article, I would like to refer to the wonderful work the DSEC...

Pope expresses Holocaust ‘shame’ before Slovak Jews

Pope Francis on Monday voiced "shame" over the massacre of more than 100,000 Slovak Jews...

Ivorians ready to rock as virus measures lifted

Ivory Coast on Friday lifted many of its coronavirus containment measures, except in...

Muslims in Thai south mark 15 years since Tak Bai ‘massacre’

Muslims in the conflict-blistered Thai south on Friday marked with prayers the 15th...

Erdogan, Trump agree ‘more effective’ coordination on Syria

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed Friday to "more...

The problem of positive discrimination

There is an issue that is fundamental for me: that whoever participates in the development...

Particularities

1. My forecasts pointed to inflation in August of between 1.15 and 1.17 per cent....