States competed for capital and labor by keeping their taxes and regulations light and efficient. As a result, America became the world’s most competitive economy.

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said ...

A recent op ed by Mario Loyola, a Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, argued that President Trump was largely correct to describe the years from 1870 to 1913, often dubbed the Gilded Age, as a sort of ...

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or since. It was a period of unprecedented economic growth and technological ...

Donald Trump has cited the Gilded Age era as an inspiration – but experts say it was rife with government and business ...

And if the president gets his way, part of that new Gilded Age will be something called gold ... And the entitlement crunch, with not enough people paying into Social Security and Medicare to ...

In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and ...

The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other ...

Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 to 1913? The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans.

Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 to 1913? The Gilded Age featured extraordinary wealth for a small class of people that largely obscured rampant poverty for many other Americans.