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.

An essential new book that reminds us how much fun Americans have even when the country is allegedly in "Depression." ...

President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs sent the stock market tumbling— and inspired 2nd Great Depression memes across the web.

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On the five-year anniversary of the start of the Great Recession, it is important to understand the basic history of the events that happened from 2007 to 2010. The technical indicator of a ...

The Great Depression changed American attitudes for decades, even after the economy recovered. We shouldn't expect things to be different.

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different Most historians look back on the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act of 1930 as a mistake that made a bad economic ...

Ten years ago, we were hit by the biggest financial shock in world history, worse even than the Great Depression. Indeed, during the 1930s, “only” a third of U.S. banks failed, while in 2008 ...

This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. “The Great Depression was pretty well ...

Trump's tariffs abandon what made America wealthy in favor of a lie about payback | Opinion Trump's policies fail to learn the lessons that should have been learned from the Great Depression ...

TikTok is facing a rare meme drought. Creators are responding the only way they know how—by turning the crisis into content.

The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness. The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a ...