A great depression is gonna involve a lot of economic collapse, not just production, but we'll have high unemployment. All across the board, we're gonna see a slowdown in economic activity and the ...

Last year’s economics Nobelist, Claudia Goldin, wrote an influential article in 1998 on the rise of high school in the United States. In 1900, about 10 percent of Americans of proper age attended high ...

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 ...

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 ...

Find all the episodes from this season here. And past seasons here. And follow along on TikTok here for video Summer School. When we last left the United States of America in our economic telling of ...

Investors commonly look to economic data and correlative events for clues as to which direction the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite will head next. Only five occasions in ...

When the economy goes south, when “capitalism” fails, government at its best comes in and spends money, restoring the system to the order and prosperity that the free market could never achieve on its ...

Roberts examines the financial, political, and social upheavals that occurred in the United States in the decade following the Panic of 1837, which he calls the First Great Depression. The years ...

If you lived through the 2008 recession, you know how painful recessions can be. Even if you didn’t personally lose your job or home, you likely knew more than one person who did. The effects of that ...

Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression. What caused The Great Depression? How bad as The Great Depression? What did ...