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 * Industry**

When the federal government has to bail out bankers, and then the bankers use the bailout on a bonus, people inevitably draw lines to history's "robber barons." But that's probably unfair--to the robber barons. Yes, some Gilded Age captains of industry defrauded investors as they gathered capital. And yes, they ruthlessly pocketed almost obscene amounts of cash. But they also built the entire industrial infrastructure of the post-Civil War United States and they took over some railroads. media type="custom" key="7902719" 
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