Gilded Age 2.0? (Encore)

镀金时代2.0?(再演)

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-12-30

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To hear President Trump tell it, the late 1800s, i.e. the Gilded Age, were a period of unparalleled wealth and prosperity in the U.S. But this era was also marked by corruption and wealth inequality. Sound familiar? On today's show, is history repeating itself?This episode originally aired June 5, 2025.  Related: Trump's tariff role model For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Everyone, greetings from The Indicator.

  • For the next week, we're running some of our favorite shows from this year.

  • And today's episode explores whether we're living in what some historians consider a second gilded age.

  • NPR.

  • Daryl, has anyone ever asked you this hypothetical?

  • If you could go back to any decade in the past, what would you pick?

  • Probably like 80,010 BC.

  • I want to know about the Neanderthals.

  • What was up with them?

  • Were they smarter than us?

  • Were we marrying them?

  • I don't know.

  • Personally, I don't think I want to go back to any period before now.

  • Like, I'm good with the present.

  • I don't want to stay there to be clear.

  • I would have to come back, but maybe for three days.

  • Well, if...

  • President Donald Trump were playing this game.

  • I think I know what he would pick.

  • And we were actually probably wealthiest of any time,