God Bless Us, Every Robber Baron
Updated Dec 24, 2020 How did Charles Dickens' beloved Christmas story become a trophy for a Wall Street titan? By Zachary D. Carter Marc Janks/HuffPost Gather round, friends, and savor a holiday fable for our bitter age. As in the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, the villain of this story is money. It features its own Ebenezer Scrooge and ghosts of moral compunction. But the ending of our tale has been adjusted: Money prevails and Scrooge dies miserable and rich, but not before buying off his ghosts and fashioning them into a museum exhibit. That’s where I’m standing, in th...
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