What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming concentration of overwhelming wealth into fewer and fewer hands but in the ...

The original Gilded Age is associated with the rise of powerful industrialists ... Following the Civil War, America experienced industrial expansion in railroads, steel production, and oil industries.

oil magnate Harold Hamm, Musk, Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Like the Gilded Age GOP, Trump and his party promote policies favoring Big Business, including tax cuts for the wealthy ...

including railroad rebates and tariffs that protected American oil interests. In addition to federal contracts and subsidies, the capitalist powers of the Gilded Age also benefited from government ...