Depression may serve evolved functions, such as signaling defeat or promoting problem-solving. It may be a result of ...

The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

However, while many people were forced to live in unsanitary conditions, in truth, the Great Depression was as much a time of struggle as it was a period of innovation for keeping clean.

Though the Great Depression was a catastrophe well beyond anyone’s personal control, people did make what, in hindsight, we can see were mistakes. And these mistakes, however innocent, cost them ...

This meant that many people who could not afford the up-front expense of investing in the stock market had access to buy and trade stocks. By 1929, two-fifths of loans issued by banks went toward ...

During the one-and-a-half years of the Great Recession, the S&P 500 index, including dividends, plunged 35.6%. Table 1: Stocks that gained during the Great Recession ...

Robert Kiyosaki warns of a 'Greater Depression' coming to the US — with millions of Americans going poor. But he says these 2 'easy-money' assets will bring in great wealth.

The 13.1% loss for bonds compares with a 65.6% loss for stocks in the worst year of the Great Depression, and a 20.4% loss for the S&P 500 in a single day known as Black Monday on October 19, 1987. Up ...

It was gone. It was too late. Nothing could have been done — took years and years to get out of that depression.” America’s history of high tariffs actually continued well after 1913, however, and ...

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different 1 of 2 | Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after ...