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And yet, today there are only 700 billionaires in the U.S., and basically none of them derived their wealth from old money.

"I had to send receipts to basically prove I had a parking permit."

"I was basically playing a joke on you, which I rarely do because I'm not really a wind up merchant," adding that Corden is.

Simultaneously, broad nativist fear of immigrants, and their labor, led to 1921 and 1924 acts creating restrictive quota systems basically eliminating immigration from anywhere but northwest Europe and the New World.

Along with its partner, the ticker, the telephone completed an investor tool kit that would stay basically unchanged for decades, through crash, depression and war.