Well, the results are in, and under President Obama the American people have now suffered the worst 5 years since the Great Depression, as first explained by Steve McCann of the American Thinker ...

The Great Depression was the deepest and longest economic ... "Protectionism in the Interwar Period." Britannica. "New Deal." Fraser Economic Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

In the next two years, US imports fell 40%. No markets abroad. No demand at home. Small wonder that economic activity ground to a standstill. During the Great Depression and years after ...

Fifteen banks have failed this year, some of them triggering bank runs reminiscent of the Great Depression. But deposits at all those banks were insured up to $100,000 (recently raised to $250,000).

“When we think about the changes that the pandemic has brought in our lives in the past year, there’s a tendency to view this as exceptional or unprecedented, where, in fact, there have been ...

Eighty years ago, the world changed forever. Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, launched a Great Depression that rippled across the globe and lasted for more than a decade. It set in motion the ...

and Congress passed a huge stimulus package of spending increases and tax cuts — prevented a second Great Depression. But his praise stops there. We are now 11 years removed from the beginning ...

Driven desperate by the Depression, criminals roved America. They hijacked trucks. They robbed banks. And they stooped to the most heinous crime of kidnapping children. “The Kidnap Years” by ...

SIMON: Unemployment numbers that were released Friday show the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent - that's the lowest in four years ... the equivalent of the Great Depression.

By Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View It’s possible to argue that the Great ... years, so I was pretty excited when a reader alerted me to “A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression ...