Personally, I am glad to see a reduction in the foreign aid budget, but some Conservative MPs joined with Labour and voted against the cut. They claimed that it would harm the UK’s standing in the world and result in disease and deaths. The fear of losing the vote led …
Read More »Defending Scrooge is a Christmas tradition for Wall Street contrarians, but maybe they’re onto something?
The redemption of Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ doesn’t make many people unhappy. The cold-hearted miser learns that there’s more to life than accumulating profit, and resolves, at the end, to pay his workers better, treat others with kindness, and donate his fortune to the poor. Who could …
Read More »‘Worse than Ebenezer Scrooge’: Covid-19 stimulus deal, agreed by Congress after months of wrangling, roasted for $600 ‘payoff’
The $900-billion coronavirus deal was announced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday night, a compromise reached between Democrats and Republicans after nearly nine months of fruitless negotiations. “We can finally report what our nation has needed to hear for a very long time: more help is on the …
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