A dismal 2015 ended with Macau casino revenue down 34.3% from 2014, with December marking the global gaming capital’s 19th consecutive month of year on year declines. Last year’s $28.9 billion in gaming revenue – still well over four times the casino win of the Vegas Strip – was Macau’s lowest since 2010.
Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.