“The Great Depression was pretty well planned.” —Sen. Ron Johnson, when asked about the national debt on a conservative radio show in early September Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, did ...

The Great Depression is remembered as one of the most difficult periods in American history. In 1933 alone, nearly 13 million individuals in the US were unemployed. Despite these difficult ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When economists tell us the current U.S. slump could never turn into another Great Depression, they all point to one thing: one of four Americans was out of work in the 1930s. But ...

At the end of November, 1933, The Daily Sentinel reported good news for local workers: “Five hundred and sixty-five men are scheduled to be put to work here as soon as possible,” the paper said. They ...

Sherman Brown was 19 and in his first year of marriage and starting a family when the stock market collapse in 1929 ushered in the Great Depression. While many commentators, including President-elect ...

No one really knows what the nation's economy will look like as we emerge from 14 months of the coronavirus pandemic, but the occasional parallels with the Great Depression were certainly difficult to ...

The United States experienced a Great Depression during the 1930s causing one-quarter of its workforce to be unemployed. Although not formally recognized, a growing body of survey evidence indicates ...

Fox Photos/Getty Images President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global ...

The Great Depression is remembered as the worst recession in modern U.S. history. By the end of 1932, the Great Depression had impacted roughly 60 million people. Some, including middle-class families ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...