Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis ... Roosevelt took the country off the gold standard and created jobs through new federal public works programs such as the Works Progress ...

While the October 1929 stock market crash triggered the Great Depression ... the US economy to recover as countries abandoned the gold standard and initiated more aggressive fiscal and monetary ...

Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.

This was as the United States deemed it important to stabilize and expand her currency through the gold standard. The Great Depression, although it had one of the most devastating economic crises ...

Fort Knox, home to much of the nation’s gold reserves, doesn’t get many visitors. That may soon change: President Donald Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, claim there’s a chance someone has stolen ...

The project traces the attempts to restore a cooperative international financial system following World War I, the failure of those attempts and the disaster of the Great Depression, and the radical ...

It did contribute to the Great Depression, and it wasn't because of gold, it was because they got the price wrong. So to have a gold standard today and not cause another depression, you'd have to ...