Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...
The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, ...
The Great Depression is remembered as the worst recession in modern U.S. history. By the end of 1932, the Great Depression had impacted roughly 60 million people. Some, including middle-class families ...
Over the past two years, the authorities have been trying to ward off a rerun of the Great Depression by every available means. “Try what it takes” could be their motto. Yet the activities of the ...
Fox Photos/Getty Images President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global ...
WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers ...