Great essay Richard. However, I think things might have been a bit worse in the 1860s. BUT as you suggest we are still living with the ghosts, like the bible thumping Stonewall Jackson (shot by his own picket). Ghost busters indeed, but I would settle from some Trust Busters. Note: https://daneke.medium.com/breaking-the-birfurcated-economy-financiers-and-the-crisis-of-public-imagination-fee35d84cc43