Let’s bust one Great Depression myth right off the bat, courtesy of Megan McArdle: “even at the height of the Depression, ...

Money in circulation mirrors production. Reduced money in circulation didn’t cause the 1930s, rather it was an effect of ...

The Great Depression was a revolutionary spark for all kinds of things — health insurance, social safety nets, big government — all of which were in response to a national crisis. Through the ...

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.

Politicians all know about the Great Depression, and because of that previous experience are willing to (let go of) worry that we're just awarding bankers" with rescue plans.

The Great Depression was perhaps not as great in a desperation sense as we've been told. When America loses an economic step, it's usually the loss of a step that others never had, nor one that ...

Similar to the Great Depression, troves of Americans were left jobless after the pandemic shut down the US economy. Last spring, the US shed more than 22 million jobs .

Some observers believe the global economy resembles that of the late 1930s, and we risk another Great Depression. But there are clear differences between then and now, argues John Stepek.

Trump claimed Wednesday that the good times in the U.S. “all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression” in 1929. “It would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff ...