Their forecasts may be a tad optimistic, though, if only because lawsuits could tie up the gambling plan in court for a long time.
The battle for Asia's biggest casino empire is threatening to tear apart the family of Stanley Ho, as the 89-year-old "King of Macau" says his relatives have divided up the gambling empire he created without his consent.
The move comes less than three months after Mr. Packer separated the media and gambling businesses of his father Kerry Packer, who died in 2005, to focus on building up the gambling operations.
It opened up the gambling market to foreign firms in 2002 and Sands was the first company to launch a Las Vegas-style casino in the territory.
According to the CFTC, a speculator "does not produce or use the commodity, but risks his or her own capital trading futures in that commodity in hopes of making a profit on price changes".. Yup, that's right, the good old boys on Wall Street ramped up the gambling in energy and food commodities when the housing market went bust.
Reno, Nev., the self-proclaimed "biggest little city in the world," is trying to reinvent itself as a mecca for business travelers to make up for the gambling revenues it has lost to the Indian casinos that have sprung up in California near Sacramento.
But the Association of British Bookmakers said there was no evidence to back up the Fairer Gambling campaign's claims that the machines are causing a problem.
Suites for the heavy gamblers known as whales are booked up in the gambling town of Tunica, Miss., 40 miles downriver.
For, no matter how jealous I am of the odds apparently secured (a generous 66-1, althatgh that was back in the summer of 2007, when Gordon Brown was only just taking up the reins), the gambling minister - whoever it really is - has broken sport's greatest taboo.
But Glyndebourne was his family's legacy, and one day one of his sons (he has four boys by a previous marriage) might assume the responsibilities of running the place as he assumed them from his father, George, who assumed them from his father, John, who dreamed up the whole enchanted gamble of a country opera house after falling for a soprano, Audrey Mildmay.
