From the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century, the United States came under the grip of a powerful political and economic movement whose influence spread across the world and persists today. Known in its time as the Trust Movement, it called for the reorganization of the American and world economy into a new form: the giant, monopoly corporation. It achieved that goal with leviathans like Standard Oil and AT&T in America, I.G. Farben in Germany, and with the domination of the Japanese imperial economy by the zaibatsu system. In its American form, the Trust Movement envisioned an
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