In Second Gilded Age, Trump shows no sign of taking on rigged system

More 70 years ago progressive policies reined in the robber barons, but today’s superrich face no foe in the White HouseAmerica’s role as the world’s economic superpower was established in the period between 1870 and the start of the first world war. The country boomed, immigrants arrived in their millions and the rich coined it in. Even now the names are familiar: John D Rockefeller; Andrew Carnegie; the Vanderbilt family. They called it the Gilded Age.
Never before had Americ