It’s Wilkins Micawber’s problem all over again. Mr. Santelli didn’t think Russian Roulette was the game we were playing. (He didn’t say what we were playing: my own suspicion is that it’s some ...

The U.S. national debt (the federal budget deficits that have been accumulating since the early 1960s) now is north of $34 trillion, a sum unimaginable to Wilkins Micawber, to the founders of our ...

As Super Tuesday looms and Governor Haley faces pressure to drop out, we offer a page from Wilkins Micawber. He was, in Dickens’ “David Copperfield,” the character who was always predicting that ...

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” – Wilkins ...

If the words of that incurable optimist, Mr. Wilkins Micawber, rang in the ears of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, Mr. Morgenthau gave no sign. He had just floated the biggest ...

As a scholar of Victorian literature, I was delighted when an alumna recently quoted me the financial advice expressed by Charles Dickens’ Wilkins Micawber, the debt-plagued yet hopeful clerk whose ...

Micawber is a 2001 ITV comedy drama series starring David Jason. It was written by John Sullivan, based upon the character of Wilkins Micawber from Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield ...

Debt, that great weight of financial obligation, which according to Wilkins Micawber in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, defines the difference between happiness and misery. Both ...