Some observers believe the global economy resembles that of the late 1930s, and we risk another Great Depression ... dramatically by dumping the gold standard in 1931 and letting sterling take ...

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 ...

The gold standard had been halted as the Great Depression set in. The system brought on a new global economic order, with Western nations leading the way and the U.S. dollar becoming the world’s ...

With people calling for an audit of the US gold stores at Fort Knox, perhaps we should remember how that gold got there in ...

Many people today are unfamiliar with the term “Great Depres­sion” and the profound signifi­cance it holds in global history. The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s, ...

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 ...

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.

Back in 1929, the Great Depression was heralded by a crash on the New York Stock Exchange, which was followed by other exchanges. However, there were not so many then. Now, not only have US and Europe ...

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 ...