States competed for capital and labor by keeping their taxes and regulations light and efficient. As a result, America became ...

Those who did the backbreaking work of mining and harvesting raw materials and who produced the goods from those materials were left behind. | Opinion ...

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

Which means that Trump’s golden age looks an awful lot like a new Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling industrial system, when poverty was widespread while barons of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed ...

But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition. That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s GDP grew at nearly 5 percent ...