Tag: Rockefeller

• Know Your History: Rockefeller Breaks Up & Gets Richer

  In 1912, after decades of pummeling the competition with unfair business practices and intimidation, the oil titan, John D. Rockefeller, sat and listened as a federal court dismantled his empire right in front of his eyes. Buoyed by the Sherman Anti-Trust act of a few years earlier, the government was finally ready to take on…

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  October 2, 2015

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  anti-trust, carnegie, Gilded Age, JP Morgan, Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Roosevelt, sherman anti-trust, Standard Oil

• “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