Which means that Trump’s golden age looks an awful lot like a new Gilded Age. The Gilded Age ... Political corruption and patronage were rampant then, presaging concerns over corporate influence ...

This turn away from patronage ... Gilded Age rule—that those who act violently against individuals inherit the mantle of religious martyrdom, while those who act practically to improve a system ...

The so-called “Gilded Age” in America was noted for the flourishing ... mean at least a partial return to the 19th-century spoils system for government hiring, which was rife with corruption ...

The start of President Trump's new term and the rapidly developing tech space are drawing parallels to the Gilded Age of U.S. history. The term, coined by writer Mark Twain, refers to a period ...

Does this sound like America today? Moreover, the paths the country took when leaving behind the Gilded Age offer valuable lessons for what we should do now and what we should fear. The First ...

In a New Year's Day post on Truth Social, President-elect Trump touted the benefits of tariffs, pointing to the Gilded Age. But economists found tariffs did not make American manufacturing great.

Mellon is the grandson of Andrew Mellon, the financier and iron-and-steel baron who built one of the largest fortunes of the Gilded Age before ... of Andrew Mellon’s patronage are everywhere.