Mike McCready

(text en català a continuació) Speaking of “hey look at me!” posts… early last year I thought I wanted to do a series of video podcasts that featured (rather, sort of compared and contrasted) Barcelona and New York. I go back and forth quite a bit so I thought I could get plenty of fresh footage [...]

There’s no real relationship between these two topics except they’re both on my mind. I was just reading in today’s New York Times about Spain’s growing and worse than expected jobless rate. I spend about a third of my time in Spain and the strange thing is that the bad economy isn’t nearly as noticeable in [...]

The hard economic times in Spain have been making the major news media in the US. Here are two reports from NBC news. The first one is from tonight’s broadcast. It’s about the truckers’ strike. Here in the US we’re having a hard time coming to terms with $4.00 for a gallon of gas. [...]