Early on, Levin quotes C.S. Lewis observing, "It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral ...

In the 1870s, the term "robber baron" was first used to describe an exploitative class of industrialists who utilized their wealth to create monopolies of resources and amass control in the ...

One 150 years later, we face a new global class of robber barons. Brian Parsons is a paleoconservative columnist in Idaho, a proud husband and father, and saved by Grace.

While some business titans of yore profited from frauds, most benefited society by transforming great technological advances — the greatest ever, tech historian Vaclav Smil argues in his book ...

The 19th century robber barons exploited holes in the capitalist system for their own gain. Their practices led to enactment of a number of laws to prevent these actions from being repeated.

In the 1890s, robber barons who held concentrated wealth that corrupted U.S. politics and its economy. Antitrust laws were passed to bust the trusts that had produced much of that wealth.

“They see him as an oligarch of the Gilded Age, the railroad robber barons,” said Zeihan, who added that Musk is perceived as “using government policy to advance his corporate interests.” ...

Not All ‘Robber Barons’ Are Created Equal Concentrations of wealth play an essential role—in some cases. May 14, 2023 10:26 am ET Share ...