Albano Martins

Opinion

- 41 POSTS

In May our inflation will be between 1.35 and 1.38 percent

I wrote in JTM (Jornal Tribuna de Macau newspaper) on April 28 that “April 2017...

Who is involved in the real estate market?

With interest rates on bank deposits close to zero, meaning real negative rates, residents are...

Inflation in April will be between 1.49 and 1.52 per cent

After Macau’s inflation reached 1.91 in February, due to the fact that the General Consumer...

Real estate prices will continue to rise!

With the recovery of the gaming industry and the taking back of land plots by...

The laws we have!

A few days ago I was invited to a police station because of a video...

Who did everything and who did nothing (Part II)

The Nam Van Lakes development project created a huge underground tunnel to drain away dirty...

Who did everything and who did nothing (Part I)

In the 1980s, when I arrived during the most prosperous years of Governor Rocha Vieira’s...

Let’s be more effective!

A few days after the DSEC disclosed the inflation rate of 2.2 per cent for...

MICE?

The Statistics on the Conventions and Exhibitions sector have been made available for 2016. It is...

February’s inflation will be below 2 per cent

I wrote a few days ago that inflation in 2017 could be between 2.19 and...

This way we will not go far! Let’s be more audacious!

The IMF analysed the Macau economy and made some forecasts and recommendations. In essence, this time,...

This way we will not go far!

Before Raimundo do Rosário was Secretary for Transport and Public Works, his predecessor, Lao Si...

2016 / 2017 GDP and inflation

Forecasting is an “artistic” exercise that does not always go well. A long time ago, a...

Good news and bad news

1. Good news may be on the way. The inflation rate in 2016 will stay at...

The Gaming Industry and diversification

1. George Soros, an 86-year-old Hungarian Jew and naturalized American, calls Trump a con man...

Seeing beyond the end of our nose!

With the transition, gaming exploded, in a city forced to make a reserve of MOP10...

A complicated city

This world goes backwards. And backward it will continue to go as the USA has managed...

Hallelujah, Macau’s GDP has finally grown!

The author of this event was the implicit GDP deflator, an index that shows the...

The ‘LAGs’

The Governance Action Lines (LAG) are under discussion. The Five-Year Plan, again, did not appear to...

How to diversify!

Everyone knows how the three per cent rule for gaming table growth appeared when Cotai...
Albano Martins

All Articles

- 52 POSTS

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...

In May our inflation will be between 1.35 and 1.38 percent

I wrote in JTM (Jornal Tribuna de Macau newspaper) on April 28 that “April 2017...

Who is involved in the real estate market?

With interest rates on bank deposits close to zero, meaning real negative rates, residents are...

Inflation in April will be between 1.49 and 1.52 per cent

After Macau’s inflation reached 1.91 in February, due to the fact that the General Consumer...

Real estate prices will continue to rise!

With the recovery of the gaming industry and the taking back of land plots by...

The laws we have!

A few days ago I was invited to a police station because of a video...

Who did everything and who did nothing (Part II)

The Nam Van Lakes development project created a huge underground tunnel to drain away dirty...

Who did everything and who did nothing (Part I)

In the 1980s, when I arrived during the most prosperous years of Governor Rocha Vieira’s...

Let’s be more effective!

A few days after the DSEC disclosed the inflation rate of 2.2 per cent for...

MICE?

The Statistics on the Conventions and Exhibitions sector have been made available for 2016. It is...