Guess whose ideas Charles Dickens put into the mouth of his antagonist Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Ebenezer Scrooge was a mortgage banker, and the arguments I am about to marshal for a hard landing in housing might sound un-Christmaslike.

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Another colleague, Rick Kahler, author and co-author of several books including one of my all-time personal finance favorites, The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge, insists every financial advisor needs his or her own financial advisor.

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Dunstan's, the future parish of Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Ebenezer Scrooge was clearly a Malthusian.

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