And I realize I have this ridiculous I live in St. Louis and I I have this like like kind of literal Gilded Age mansion because it's affordable there and it was built in 1909 and then you know, by industrialists of the of the lastcentury and um and it's preposterous, but uh but quite modest for the city.
An artist put down what he called Stolpersteine, stumbling stones, replacing individual cobblestones with gilded -over stones stamped with the name of a person who was murdered. And they say, here lived this person's name, this person's birthdate, and died in Auschwitz, Treblinka,
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. The Gilded Age, you know?
Just a little over 10 years ago, 2001, the US had a large surplus. The Gilded Age. The Roaring '20s.
And he was like the Bill Gates of a century ago, one of the wealthiest men in the world, and he has a mixed record as an employer and capitalist, definitely like very gilded age monopolist, not great to workers, did some violent and horrible things, also great philanthropist, who gave away the equivalent of like $250 billion in contemporary dollars, including-- he funded the construction of about 2,800 libraries
And it had padded stalls for his dairy cows so he could have fresh cream every morning for breakfast. So this is the Gilded Age, just tremendous sums of money, certain individuals who had and were able to wield a lot of power with this money. And he pretty much got what he wanted.
You see the two caskets here. A pair of gilded bronze greaves-- greaves, leg armor, shin guards, are shown on the right there. And there was a fabulous golden quiver, you see the golden quiver on the lower left, along with arrows, and parts of a bow.
That brings up, I think, a comparison that you draw between the moment that India is currently in and let's say that the United States was in during the Gilded Age or England was in in the time of Dickens, where you kind of have this very interesting dynamic. Because with two, three, sorry, primary stakeholders, the state institution or state apparatus fails to provide basic needs and basic services infrastructure
You got the whole family. They've partnered with the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
tell you what in the Roaring 20s the iconic girl in the swing looked like she was the other act and in this gilded swing she swung over the heads of the drinkers she looked like a Vargas pinup she had the long legs the pointed feet
Nansen. I saw in the museum there in Oslo all these references, continuing references to the Jeanette expedition, the famous American voyage from the Gilded Age. And I'm an American.
I wanted to wear it on my sleeve to make people confront that they were among people who were the kind of people And so the war years and also the crash after the Gilded Age completely leveled out the wealth distribution.
And it's much too intrusive to ask that. So of course it is the case that as in the original Gilded Age, there are increasing economic extremes.
It was like, Jim, the perfect name for your new beer is Sacred Cod. It's this really sort of stupid gross looking wooden plaque that is gilded with gold leaf with this fish.
Like, 10% of your world building is above water. Yep. You have the iceberg approach or the gilding approach, right? Yes. Or the electroplating approach.
Go visit the glacier. You know, it's very much a gilded imprisonment, to say the least. He hates every minute of it and complains about it all the time, because the war is still going on.
Nothing goes better with pork than-- More pork. Exactly. If there's a lily to be gilded , we'll find it. So we're just going to follow that one cut.
the Ashes of that often you know you can't live in that Gilded Age anymore um so Dallas can we're not sure does the
First off, thank you for being the Gilda Radner of our generation.
At the same time, he does pull on mythologies of the idea of America in the Gilded Age, the frontier mythology, the individual immigrant, the settler mythology.
Going to do a TV show like this, or "The Gilded Age," or whatever it is, this is all part of my artistry.
Commoners line the streets for endless hours even in dark and sleet hoping to glimpse her face through the window of her gilded carriage.
And apply it at scale-- it strikes me that-- I mean, I think the grand conclusion or recommendation from the book is doing what it takes to usher in this progressive era that might be able to move India from the Gilded Age to higher levels of development.
So very special thanks to Rob and our Community Relations Team, who's working with the Gilder Lehrman Foundation-- thank you, I knew I was going to mess that up--
the New York Herald. This is James Gordon Bennett Jr. who was this Gilded Age character, a spoiled brat, a guy who got pretty much everything he wanted, a reckless adventurer himself, a lover of spectacle.
Just a little over 10 years ago, 2001, the US had a large surplus. Each time we looked over the precipice and we said "That's not the direction we wanna go." The Gilded Age was followed by the Progressive era.
And we know that, especially in New York, during the so-called Gilded Age, women like Caroline Astor and Alva Vanderbilt were having--
Brittany, as you know, I wrote in the book about how oftentimes, we create these personas for work, and then they become these gilded cages.
Mr. Crabtree is the former bureau chief of the "Financial Times" in Mumbai, currently a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. And he's written this fantastic book, "The Billionaire Raj, a Journey Through India's Gilded Age." The book has received fantastic reviews from "Publisher Weekly." "Washington Post" called it one of the seven business
And you might have been fairly depressed about America's prospects. But within 10 or 20, 30 years, you have the move that is commonly called the move from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era, which is a complicated set of changes.
And it's much too intrusive to ask that. And it does seem to me there's a real lesson to be learned from the period from 1880 to say 1920, the original Gilded Age, the original progressive
between economy of Adams and the economy of bits is something that, you know, again, you've internalized. But it was formalized by the likes of George Gilder, Michael Carlson, by