Experts on the era say Trump is idealizing a time rife with government and business corruption, social turmoil and inequality ...

The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s 25th ...

McKinley, Garfield point the way for the 47th president. President Trump foresees “a period of transition” before his tariffs ...

The Gilded Age plutocrats made their money in steel (Carnegie ... shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.

And Gilded Age policies, they maintain ... The results were quickly poor for the economy and for Republicans. “It led to an increase in prices, a kind of inflation, even before the bill took ...