It has been a good story. You've got the wind behind you with a very strong economy.

It's going to be a struggle. They've got a challenge on their plate and there are others with an easier deck of cards.

I had to struggle for six months to get the money. Ireland was rather an unproven story.

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.

strong earnings, confidence on the global economy and strong U.S. retail numbers over the (Thanksgiving) holiday period.

When we take a look at how far the ripple will travel, from vendors, the local restaurants, local economy, hotels and everything that feeds off of those, it will have a big impact.