Canadian Business Blogs | Advice on Investment in Canada, Stock Market, Small Businesses Opportunities » Christmas http://blog.canadianbusiness.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:07:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Was Scooge that bad? http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/was-scooge-that-bad/ http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/was-scooge-that-bad/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:58:54 +0000 Larry MacDonald http://blog.canadianbusiness.com/?p=511 It’s amazing that a book written in 1846 about a miserly banker by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge still enthralls us. Give credit to Charles Dickens for his powerful storytelling skills. But was Ebenezer such a bad dude after all? His frugality is the stuff of personal finance books. If one wants to get rich they have to spend less than they earn (the millionaire next door, type of thing).

Stingy Investor has a tradition of running a piece or two every Christmas on Mr. Scrooge that paints him in a more favorable light. Here are some links to them.

Scrooge Defended
In Defense of Scrooge
In Defense of the Grinch & Scrooge
The Case for Ebeneezer
What I Like About Scrooge
So, Scrooge was right after all

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