This Finally Explains Why Scrooge Is Such A Scrooge In 'A Christmas Carol'

After nearly two centuries, we may finally know where humbugs come from. Scrooge is a name that's become synonymous with being a curmudgeon. He's greedy, stingy, surly and, in the case of "A Muppet Christmas Carol," looks an awful lot like Michael Caine. But it turns out there may be a big reason Scrooge is such a miser. The theory:  Scrooge is so stingy because he lived through the Napoleonic Wars and knows what economic hardship is really like. Image: Buzzfeed Whaaaaat? Is Napoleon indirectly...