A Christmas Story for Modern Times

If Charles Dickens were alive today, he’d have no trouble recognizing modern-day Scrooges.

Just like the old Scrooge, the corporate Scrooges of today are hoarding their wealth rather than helping to create general prosperity. Corporations are sitting on a record $2 trillion in profits but refuse to bring investment, employment, wages and benefits back to pre-recession levels. Instead, corporate executives are spending billions on their own compensation and $445 billion to buy back the stock of their own companies...
~ from Modern-day Scrooges Should Learn the Lesson of A Christmas Carol by Kenneth R. Peres ~