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

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s. The Republican has said ...

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 ...

The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition ... protections from competition for every special-interest group that could hire lobbyists in Washington.

“It’s fine, it’s OK. But it would have been very much better.” The desire to recreate the Gilded Age is fueled by Trump’s fondness for tariffs. It’s also why he praises the nation’s ...

The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition ... protections from competition for every special-interest group that could hire lobbyists in Washington.

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 ...