The market crash of 1929 triggered the Great Depression, which would shape American life for the following decade.

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen.

Meanwhile, the least popular era came about 100 years ago, when the country was plagued by the Great Depression. In the poll ...

Men seeking jobs during the Great Depression gather outside city hall in Cleveland on Oct. 9, 1930. (AP) When Donald Trump was inaugurated, by most measures, the United States was the strongest ...

The stock market under Trump has seen one of its worst performances on record in the first 100 days of a U.S. presidency. It’s the worst start to a year since Gerald Ford took over for Richard Nixon ...

The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.

The SBP has made another, 100bps cut in the interest rate, bringing it further down from the record levels of the past couple of years. While the rate is still relatively high at 11%, it is half of ...

Needless exaggerations already abound. For example, comparisons to the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariffs and the Great Depression are everywhere. Those duties, enacted in 1930, are widely believed to ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history when unemployment reached 25%. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Americans hadn't felt that level of economic tragedy in a century.

How extraordinary? We’re now making comparisons to the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has tumbled 9.1% in the first three weeks of April, the 129-year-old index’s worst ...

From the Smoot-Hawley Act to Trump’s current trade war, economic history clearly demonstrates that protectionism is not only ineffective, but counterproductive. In a world where value chains are ...

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.