Concentrated wealth gives individuals the power to corrupt the free press, elections, the economy and our government. In the 1890s, robber barons who held concentrated wealth that corrupted U.S.

SAN ANTONIO — A free chance to tour a part of the city's underworld that is rarely seen by the public, Robber Baron Cave, is coming up on April 9. The cave, located a mile south of 410 on Nacogdoches ...

It has taken America’s new aristocracy over 100 years of biding their time, but they have finally arrived. Fortune magazine on Feb. 23 wrote, “The 1% want to stand out after years of being stealthy ...

Discover the notorious industrialists and financiers who stopped at nothing to build huge fortunes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned that a new Gilded Age of “robber barons” was in danger of eroding Americans’ hard-won ...

LONG BRANCH ‑ Robber barons. Nor'easters. A tug boat collision. A tragic fire. The city has seen it all out on its piers. And as it prepares to build its sixth ocean pier, historian Greg Kelly will ...

As a historian, I have often dreamed of living in America during a different era. Take, for example, the late 1800s, the era of the Robber Barons. But wait, maybe it's not a dream. Maybe it's a ...