Tag: big business

• “Turn the Screw”: Big Business & the Robber Barons

  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got nothing on these guys.  The manipulators of the banking system and real estate market which helped crash our economy in 2008 might actually seem a little tame when pitted head to head with the original Robber Barons.  What do you know about these guys?  Jay Gould, Joseph Huntington, Jay…

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  February 8, 2012

  History & Culture, USA

  big business, Jay Cooke, Jay Gould, Joseph Huntington, Robber Barons, Rockefeller