When the stock market crashed in 1929, ushering in the Great Depression, the way Americans approached food and cooking ...

Farmers had already been struggling before the Great Depression. During the 1920s, the modernisation of farming, including the use of new fertilisers and farm machinery, had led to overproduction.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 kneecapped America's ability to escape the Great Depression, and today's trade wars look ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke actually apologized for the Federal Reserve’s actions during the Great Depression, placing much of the blame on the Fed itself. Around the time of the Great ...

For example, fiscal stimulus during the height of the COVID-19 ... bull market in the S&P 500 dating back to the start of the Great Depression in September 1929. According to Bespoke's ...

and globally during 2008/09). The big difference of course, is that the impact of the Great Depression was far greater in economic terms. When you look at how the 2008 recession unfolded ...

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...

I was told this story by my father who was raised during the Great Depression. He told it to us after each Christmas to remind us of the continuing plight of the poor. Tuesday, Jan. 22 ...

Many of the stocks that rose during the Great Depression were defense stocks like Electric Boat, now a defense subsidiary of General Dynamics (NASDAQ: GD). This was because the U.S. was gearing up ...