Wittenberg is the German city where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door 500 years ago and launched the Protestant Reformation. If all those who are not working and not just the ...

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in American history. Countless books and historical explorations have focused on the era, but, somehow, myths about the Great Depression abound.

The number of people at work is generally closely related to whether an economy is growing at a reasonable rate Back in the depths the global financial crisis in 2009, the International Labour Office ...

Bennett, the Conservative opposition leader, ran against Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during the 1930 ...

The worst economic crisis in American history spurred the creation of the modern central banking system—hopefully ensuring another financial disaster of the same magnitude will never happen again.

The Great Recession from 2007-09 saw GDP fall 4.3%, the biggest drop since the Great Depression. Deregulation in the 2000s and excessive risk by banks were major causes of the financial crisis.