Liaquat Ahamed worked as a professional investment manager for 25 years. Liaquat Ahamed's new book, Lords of Finance, is a history of the Great Depression that centers on the era's four most important ...

With a steady drumbeat of bad economic news and a recession that looks to be the most severe since World War II, it is inevitable that there would be many concerns about a repeat of the Great ...

Chances are you can’t name a single central banker from the 1920s, but in their day, they were quite the celebrities, even giving false names when traveling by ocean liner in order to dodge the press.

John B. Judis is a senior editor of The New Republic and a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In the 1930s, as the world plunged into depression, there were two ...

"In the Great Depression, what the Fed did at the beginning was to tighten interest rates. It took a long time to essentially recognize the magnitude of the problem, but of course it was a problem we ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and ...

For well over a century, Black women in the United States have been at the forefront of the struggle for human rights. During the Great Depression, for example, African American educator Melva L.

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 ...

Our country, indeed the globe, is now officially in a deep recession. Inevitably, this news brings reminders of the Great Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, which lasted from 1930 to around 1941.

Uncover the history of this Depression-era dish named for President Herbert Hoover that's famous for its resourcefulness and ...

The program gave birth to the idea of retirement and covers nearly all Americans — but now it faces major financial and customer service challenges. By Mark Miller Donald Trump’s self-serving crypto ...

Reading the stories of Napans who remember living through the Great Depression offers lessons for any generation. The people who offered their reflections in Sunday‘s Register, Harold and Dorothy ...