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Is Sam Bankman-Fried a Modern-Day Robber Baron?
CoinDesk via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoFTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is like a modern day robber baron in at least one way. This weekend, Bankman-Fried discussed the “responsibility” he feels to...
Iron Range lawmakers bristle at 'robber baron' bill that would send mining money south
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDULUTH — A proposal to expand the region that benefits from millions of dollars in taconite...
5 new books to read in August
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoA gripping biography of a 19th century robber baron, a new novel about the cost of greatness among elite professional athletes, and a droll but sincere...
William Watson: An excess profits tax? OK, Mr. Singh, but how about an excess wages tax, too?
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoNDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada needs an excess profits tax to help reduce inflation. His...
Opinion: We are smack in the middle of a new Gilded Age
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 9 months agoGolden Age, Gilded Age—there’s a world of difference. The contrast matters today as much as it did...
Love 'The Gilded Age'? This Rye mansion has a connection
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA Rye property, now on the market, merges contemporary design with a Gilded Age sensibility. That...
Martha Stewart's posing for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue a blow against agism?
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA stooped woman once tottered up to Mark Twain and asked if he liked old ladies. He replied, “Yes,...
Big Pharma: Investment Bedrock
Barrons.com· 1 month agoMAILBAG To the Editor: This is an outstanding article with big implications (“Big Pharma Stocks Need a Rethink. Investors Keep Making the Same Mistake,”...
My Favorite Victorian Criminal Was a Bank Robber With a Secret Weapon
Slate via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe roughly 75 years between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II was a period...
Mr. Trump in Court
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDonald Trump appears for his criminal trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty...