In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...

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Though the U.S. has experienced several recessions, there has only been 1 major depression. Often referred to as “the Great Depression,” the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, caused the ...

A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of ...

Bradley E. Clift The year was 1933 and christmas was just a week away. Deep in the trough of the Great Depression, the people of Canton, Ohio, were down on their luck and hungry. Nearly half the ...

In fact, it was more like a great tsunami that initially pulls water away from the shore—only to return in a towering, overwhelming surge. In August, the affliction resurfaced in Switzerland in ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff is widely seen by economists and historians as the leading event of the Great Depression. The ...

The intellectual response to the Great Depression is often portrayed as a battle between the ideas of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Yet both the Austrian and the Keynesian interpretations ...

“Such times are very much like the 1930s,” he said, referring to the period that covered most of the Great Depression. “I’ve studied history, and this repeats over and over again.” Dalio also warned ...