By the end of Thursday, Oct. 24, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange had rebounded from the 10% dip that the market had taken ...

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: When did the Great Depression start?

The Fed is currently hiking into a recession, like in 1929. But the Fed also hiked during other recessions, like in 1974. History shows that the Fed hikes if necessary, despite the economic and ...

The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, families had to stretch every dollar, make do with what they had, and get ...

The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and ended around 1939, is the longest and most severe U.S. economic downturn in modern history. The 1920s in the U.S. became known as the Roaring '20s, ...

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

We have faced fears, for more than 10 years, that the market is going to experience the kind of crash not seen in nearly a century If we speak about 1929 perhaps we believe we will avoid a similar ...

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 ...

A compact and often illuminating history of the Great Depression, geared toward greater understanding of the 2008 financial meltdown and the current economy. Documentary maker William Karel forfeits ...