At that level, the party might even hold the balance of power at the next general election, due by 2007.

ECONOMIST: A bank robbery comes at a high political price

In the second tier, the hustler class of new-money industrialists produced a first generation of Robber Barons, and then an asymmetric balance of power between bankers and second-generation hustlers who aspired to Robber Baron level fortunes (egged on by Horatio Alger narratives), but ended up as the tame new middle class.

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