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.

Aug. 11--Depression is estimated to cause 200 million lost workdays each year at a cost to employers of $17 billion to $44 billion-- 81 percent due to reduced performance while at work, the World ...

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 ...