Biden warns of dangerous threat of new age of ‘robber barons’ in farewell address

Joe Biden (AP)
Joe Biden (AP)

President Joe Biden warned in his farewell address to the nation Wednesday night that a new gilded age of “robber barons” was in danger of eroding Americans’ hard-won freedoms unless the government takes steps to ensure that the ultra-wealthy pay a fair share in taxes and aren’t allowed to exercise outsized power.