Wealthy industrialists in the late 19th century became known as "robber barons" and "captains of industry" as a way to gain financial advantage. As well as making their wealth, they used it for good, ...

Professor Burton Folsom discussed his book, "The Myth of the Robber Barons", published by the Young America Foundation. In the book he examines the careers of prominent 19th Century industrialists ...

Robber barons were 19th-century American industrialists who amassed great wealth by creating monopolies over major industries, often through unethical means. The term "robber baron" was first used ...

These were the likes of Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan, Andrew Mellon and John D. Rockefeller. The Industrialists the anti-free-market Left dubbed “Robber Barons” - simply because these men ...

A century and a half before the current supply glut sent oil prices into contango, one of America's greatest industrialists tried to make money by storing crude. He failed. In 1862, Andrew ...

Between 1835 and 1839 four men were born who forged America into the richest, most inventive and most productive country on the planet. Arguably, few.

In The Wall Street Journal, Karl Borden warns that if the United Nations ends up in charge of the Internet it would have a chokehold on the global economy.

The Gilded Age's George Russell is based on a real-life robber baron whose contentious relationship with the real Mrs. Astor hints at George's arc.

A century and a half before the current supply glut sent oil prices into contango, one of America’s greatest industrialists tried to make money by storing crude. He failed. In 1862, Andrew ...