scrooge

MPs backed £4-billion cut to UK foreign aid budget – No, it’s not a Scrooge-like move, because charity begins at home

Personally, I am glad to see a reduction in the foreign aid budget, but some Conservative MPs joined with Labour…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

‘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…

3 years ago