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Article: Robber Barons
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ROBBER BARONS
The "robber barons" were industrial and financial tycoons of the late nineteenth century. They included banker and financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837
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1913); oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller (1839
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1937); steel mogul Andrew Carnegie (1835
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1919); financiers James J. Hill (1838
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1916), James Fisk (1834
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1872), and Jay Gould (1836
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1892); and rail magnates Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794
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1877) and Collis Huntington (1821
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1900). Hailed by some for expanding and modernizing the capitalist system, lauded by others for their philanthropic contributions to the arts and education, these businessmen were viewed by many more as ...
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Article: The new robber barons
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December 26, 1997 ;
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... ... and their political power, the early robber barons of capitalism kept their employees ... market. In Israel, the number of robber barons controlling industrial complexes and ... have become the latter day Israeli robber barons, exploiting their monopolies and power ...
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