A Financial Fable

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"A Financial Fable"
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 126.jpg
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #126 (March 1951)
Story code W WDC 126-02
Story Carl Barks
Ink Carl Barks
Date September 14, 1950
Hero Donald Duck
Pages 10
Layout 4 rows per page
Appearances Donald Duck
Scrooge McDuck
Gladstone Gander
Huey, Dewey and Louie
First publication Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #126
March 1951








Meanwhile, Gladstone is demonstrating his unbelievable luck, holding out his hat and asking for some money to land in it. Two million of Scrooge's dollars then fall down from the sky and land in the hat. The two cousins decide to spend the money on traveling, and drive to the local village to buy gas. When they arrive, they learn that money has been raining over the villagers too, and now that everyone is a millionaire, no one is working anymore. Therefore, they cannot buy gas, or take the bus, or even buy good shoes so that they can walk to a town where they can buy something. Donald gives up, and returns to his uncle, where he gets his job back, while Gladstone gives Donald his million and goes fishing. Scrooge informs him that if he wants to eat eggs for breakfast, they cost a million each.

Eventually, all the new millionaires go to Scrooge's farm to buy food and perhaps get a job. With the prices having drastically increased — an egg now costs one million dollars, as does a ham, and a cabbage costs two million — Scrooge soon gets all of his money back, and everything is back to normal.


The message of the story has been described as politically right-wing. Ed Natcher of Prism Comics wrote that Barks "wrote from a socio-economic viewpoint that was somewhat to the right of Ayn Rand" and that the story could make "any Bush blush with envy at its conservative credentials".[2] Donaldist Jon Gisle called the story "a classic defence of the capitalistic system".[3]



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  1. ^ a b A Financial Fable at the INDUCKS
  4. ^ Oksholen, Tore (June 2006). "Nobel Donald". Gemini (in Norwegian): 21–23. Retrieved 2008-02-13. 

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