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SPIEGEL ONLINE, 10/28/2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Second Gilded Age: Has America Become an Oligarchy? -----------------------------------------------------------------

The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak of tension between America's super-rich and the "other 99 percent." Experts now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund managers have replaced oil barons -- and are killing the American dream.

By Thomas Schulz

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