The tension between prudence and making a dollar

About landslides and windfall taxes and Greens being right about all of this since ages ago

America had its Gilded Age, Australia had its Convict Era. The Phillipines had their Marcos Era, we had a Muldoon one. Between two unimaginably dreadful wars there was a Jazz Age.

What name will history find for this tortured, febrile, brittle epoch we’re in right now? What would best capture its dire excesses, its galloping accumulation of billionaires…