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 ...

We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he ...