Few shows bring the past to life quite like “The Gilded Age“. Created by “Downton Abbey’s” Julian Fellowes, this HBO […] ...

The Gilded Age was a period of enormous wealth for some and extreme poverty for others.

Going back to the Gilded Age, that was a time of evolving currency. Now we seem to be at a place where Trump is looking at it maybe changing the way the dollar is used.

The phrase “the gilded age” is borrowed from Mark Twain’s 1873 novel of the same name, a political satire about the materialism and corruption of the years following the Civil War.