DUBLIN – Myths, myths, myths… Bamboozles… claptrap… bummmph… clownish gods… jackass deities! We are surrounded… outnumbered… hopelessly outgunned. In short, the situation is excellent. We will attack! Hesitating… we glance around. Our beat here is money; we don’t want to…

PORTLAW, IRELAND – Not much to report on from the financial world. Nothing much happening. But when the news restarts, we predict it will be bad. In the meantime…

OVER A BAR, IN YOUGHAL, IRELAND – “Here in Ireland, it is bad luck to cut down a holly tree,” says our weekend helper, Ronan. “Oh… and I don’t think your wife would like to know about that one, either.”…

BARCELONA – The streets were crowded on Monday night. On the main ramblas, so many people were strolling about that we could barely cross the intersection. Many of the women held a single red rose. It was the Day of Roses…

BARCELONA – This just in… from our man in Argentina… I stopped in Cafayate for lunch… In the square were some students from different schools celebrating “El día del aborigen Americano” [Day of the original American] as you can see…