in which people who accrued great wealth accrued great influence over the course of the United States. This system went on to define the Gilded Age. Thompson: In the introduction of The Republic ...

The wealth gap "raises questions about the efficacy of democratic institutions and the ability of the government to regulate corporate behavior in the public interest." While the first Gilded Age ...

“There are some promising signs, but if we don't continue down that path, we are already essentially in a new Gilded Age,” says Tamir ... The wage gap continues to widen among larger companies ...

Mark Stelzner: The historic income inequality we associate with Gilded Age up to the Great Depression began to shrink ... Movement began trying to address economic questions and narrow wealth and ...

Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before. In New York, the opera, the theatre ...

The Gilded Age was a fractious time, and amidst growing wealth and opulence, a sense of desperation and resentment emerged. I think the wealthy felt some anxiety at the thought that at some point ...

But the railroads depended on a system of insider dealing, corruption, and stock manipulation, in which people who accrued great wealth accrued great influence over the course of the United States.

The Gilded Age has become a hot topic in pop culture, with an HBO show of the same name (seen here filming behind the scenes in New York City). The 2022 Met Gala also had a Gilded Age theme.