Delve into the causes and impact of one of the most catastrophic economic crashes in history, the Great Depression. Explore ...

Economics almost always waves off taxation as significant among the causes of the Great Depression. When we wrote our income tax history of the United States, Taxes Have Consequences, it became ...

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 indic ...

Getting back to the Great Depression, it’s not wrong in principle to cite underconsumption as one of the causes. But an economist will ask why people failed to consume.

In the most basic of definitions, an economic depression is a severe form of recession that is prolonged over many years and causes a decline in gross domestic product (GDP) of at least 10% per year.

Great leaders such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Spurgeon suffered from depression. One psychologist termed it as 'the common cold of emotional health'.

Unfortunately, with the Great Depression creeping around the corner in 1929, migration — and the progress it brought — was about to change again. A Second Wave ...