<span>Robber barons were accused of eliminating competition through predatory pricing and then overcharging when they had a monopoly.</span>The term combines the concept of a criminal robber with an illegitimate aristocrat baron.The term "robber baron" contrasted with the term "captain of industry," which described industrialists who also benefitted society.<span>Nineteenth-century robber barons included J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, and John D. Rockefeller.</span><span>In order to prevent single companies from developing a monopoly over an entire industry, public officials during this era put passing and enforcing strong antitrust laws high on their agenda. </span>The term "robber baron" was applied to powerful nineteenth-century industrialists who were viewed as having used questionable practices to amass their wealth. On the other hand, "captains of industry" were business leaders whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way.
The US would like to trade more with China, which is reasonable, because
1) the US already imports many Chinese products, which shows our demand for chinese-made products
2) the US also exports many products to China, and with China having a large population, more profits can be earned from there
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As we look into the open fire for our fancies, so we are apt to study the dim past for the wonderful and sublime, forgetful of the fact that the present is a constant romance, and that the happenings of to-day which we count of little importance are sure to startle somebody in the future, and engage the pen of the historian, philosopher, and poet.
Accustomed as we are to think of the vast steppes of Russia and Siberia as alike strange and boundless, and to deal with the unknown interior of Africa as an impenetrable mystery, we lose sight of a locality in our own country that once surpassed all these in virgin grandeur, in majestic solitude, and in all the attributes of a tremendous wilderness.
Because we let anyone with money into the system and they elect other people with money. pretty much its because of money
