In sixty years, we have gone from 2 billionaires in the United States to just under 2,000. How on earth did that happen?Today, Timothy Noah from the New Republic takes us all the way from our framers fearing excessive wealth to the country's first (potential) trillionaire. To learn about their proliferation, their desires, and their outsized effect on American policy, check out his article, <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/196176/trump-billionaires-america-wealth-inequality">How the Billionaires Took Over</a>. 
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