Most of what you know about the "Gilded Age" is mythology.

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TB — 1/10/2012 3:36:39 AM (archived)

It's instructive that this period of time in the U.S. is considered the absolute nadir of unrestrained private enterprise.

Compare to the nadirs of unrestrained government power.

Take note of the immigration rates.

http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/1997/d/images/legal-immigrants.png

Tell me again what brought them here. Doesn't seem to have been the New Deal.

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More Pointless Philosophizing - ER - 1/7/2012 1:02:47 AM
- Where is Marcus Aurelius when you need him? - FrankC - 1/8/2012 2:11:05 AM
  - Perhaps the "good emperor" is an outmoded concept. - Robert - 1/8/2012 6:15:22 AM
    - Why stop there? - ER - 1/8/2012 6:11:13 PM
      - I noticed the gentle merging of "GOP" and "corporals of industry" again. - TB - 1/9/2012 5:24:10 PM
        
        Re: I noticed the gentle merging of "GOP" and "corporals of industry" again. - ER - 1/9/2012 7:50:14 PM
        
        Re: I noticed the gentle merging of "GOP" and "corporals of industry" again. - ER - 1/9/2012 7:41:55 PM
        
        Re: I noticed the gentle merging of "GOP" and "corporals of industry" again. - TB - 1/9/2012 8:29:01 PM
        
        Re: I noticed the gentle merging of "GOP" and "corporals of industry" again. - ER - 1/9/2012 9:49:25 PM
        
        Polar bears in the South Pacific again. - TB - 1/9/2012 11:55:04 PM
        
        Re: Polar bears in the South Pacific again. - ER - 1/10/2012 12:19:08 AM
        
        Most of what you know about the "Gilded Age" is mythology. - TB - 1/10/2012 3:36:39 AM
        
        Re: Most of what you know about the "Gilded Age" is mythology. - ER - 1/10/2012 4:55:32 AM
        
        Your first theory fell flat, so you came up with a different one. - TB - 1/10/2012 5:58:25 AM
        
        Re: Your first theory fell flat, so you came up with a different one. - ER - 1/10/2012 1:06:56 PM
      - Did you read my condemnation of party politics - FrankC - 1/9/2012 7:30:07 AM
        
        Re: Did you read my condemnation of party politics - ER - 1/9/2012 2:18:56 PM
        
        Oh, the Democrats have ideas. Very specific ones. So does their opposition. - TB - 1/9/2012 5:02:23 PM
        
        Re: Oh, the Democrats have ideas. Very specific ones. So does their opposition. - ER - 1/9/2012 7:34:41 PM
- Well we all know something... - RobVG - 1/7/2012 3:37:58 AM
  - Re: Well we all know something... - ER - 1/7/2012 5:11:59 AM
    - Usually the first thing that comes to mind is TARP and the stimulus - RobVG - 1/7/2012 7:02:13 PM
      - Re: Usually the first thing that comes to mind is TARP and the stimulus - ER - 1/7/2012 8:05:47 PM
        
        "A lot of problems just go away on their own”. - RobVG - 1/7/2012 10:06:21 PM
        
        Re: "A lot of problems just go away on their own”. - visitor - 1/7/2012 10:44:42 PM
        
        Take heart.. - RobVG - 1/7/2012 10:55:39 PM
        
        An analogy - RobVG - 1/7/2012 8:56:21 PM
        
        Re: An analogy - ER - 1/7/2012 9:23:22 PM
        
        Re: An analogy - RobVG - 1/7/2012 10:12:01 PM
        
        Re: An analogy - TB - 1/8/2012 2:50:13 AM
        
        Look it up? - ER - 1/7/2012 11:08:21 PM
        
        Corrected for inflation, the Federal government is spending more than the amount of the entire WWII debt every single year. - TB - 1/7/2012 8:21:49 PM
        
        Re: Corrected for inflation, the Federal government is spending more than the amount of the entire WWII debt every single year. - ER - 1/7/2012 9:01:36 PM
        
        Re: Corrected for inflation, the Federal government is spending more than the amount of the entire WWII debt every single year. - TB - 1/7/2012 9:48:22 PM
        
        Shorter version: - TB - 1/7/2012 9:49:28 PM
        
        Re: Shorter version: - ER - 1/7/2012 10:02:26 PM
        
        They didn't do that either, did they? - TB - 1/8/2012 1:12:53 AM
        
        Start with this - RobVG - 1/8/2012 1:59:24 AM
        
        Re: Start with this - ER - 1/8/2012 1:14:27 PM
        
        I'm just saying that someone should have gone to jail. - RobVG - 1/8/2012 6:04:05 PM
        
        Re: I'm just saying that someone should have gone to jail. - ER - 1/8/2012 6:38:52 PM
        
        Re: I'm just saying that someone should have gone to jail. - RobVG - 1/8/2012 7:34:07 PM
        
        Re: Shorter version: - RobVG - 1/7/2012 10:23:37 PM
- Re: More Pointless Philosophizing - bowser - 1/7/2012 1:32:11 AM
  - Re: More Pointless Philosophizing - ER - 1/7/2012 1:53:24 AM

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