Saturday, December 29, 2007

The U.S. Economy: The Second Coming of the Robber Barons?

To get a handle on what is happening to our economy, we may have to look back into history at the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age, from 1870 to 1890, was an era in American history of enormous wealth disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Great wealth was amassed by a few industrialists and financiers, such as Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and

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