Scrooge & Marley, LLC, Inc.

[trof]

I was watching the 1938 version of "A Christmas Carol" last night. It's the one I remember from childhood. Reginald Owen plays Ebeneezer Scrooge and Leo G. Carrol is the ghost of Jacob Marley.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029992/

That's when the similarities between this old story, written over 150 years ago, and our current financial 'unpleasantness' hit me.

From Wiki:
"In life, Marley was the business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge. As teenagers, both men had apprenticed in business and met as clerks (presumably in accounting) in another business. The firm of Scrooge and Marley was a nineteeth century financial institution, probably a counting house, as Marley refers to their offices as 'our money-changing hole'. They have become successful bankers, with seats on the London Stock Exchange; they are also stockholders and directors of at least one major association, but a vast amount of their wealth has been accumulated through usurious moneylending."
Mortgagors!

And everything old is new again.
:-(

[catmandu57]

1. This boy is ignorance, this girl is want

fear them both, but, fear this boy especially.
I like the 1951 version with Alastair Sim as Scrooge, I was watching it the other day and it struck me how much Sim looked like dead eye the dicK.