While the October 1929 stock market crash triggered the Great Depression, multiple factors turned it into a decade-long economic catastrophe. Overproduction, executive inaction, ill-timed tariffs, ...

Americans appear to actually thrive on adversity, according to a study published this week that reached the conclusion after ...

The United States saw a similar war on unions in the 1920s, when vigilante squads and police battalions suppressed strikes at ...

It was a time of rapid economic growth, fueled by easy credit and rampant speculation in Western land that drove prices ... and plunging the country into what has become known as the Great Recession.

The longest recession in American history took place between 1929 and 1939. Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis was noteworthy in terms of both its length and its severity.

Then the drama moved onto the political stage By Adam Hochschild In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years ...