During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before.

The political cartoons of the 1880s showed morbidly obese men representing the era’s trusts, their suits and top hats covering undergarments fashioned as a sack of money, perched ominously above ...

Gilded Age 2.0? (Encore) : The Indicator from Planet Money To hear President Trump tell it, the late 1800s, i.e. the Gilded Age, were a period of unparalleled wealth and prosperity in the U.S. But ...