The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, ...

During the summer of 1931, Toledo experienced the worst banking crash of the Great Depression. Timothy Messer-Kruse explained the events leading up to the crash and the lasting impact it has had ...

The rest of the country was not so lucky. Thousands of bank closures spread across the nation by the fall of 1931. At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, one in four Americans were out of ...

Among the most defining images of the Great Depression are pictures of frenzied bank runs, with desperate and frantic mobs of customers storming failing banks to withdraw their money before ...

Big banks are attracting more deposits–and putting money back into failing banks. A similar system existed in the run-up to the Great Depression.

UCI economist Gary Richardson, whose studies focus on the Great Depression, believes the condition of the banking system in today’s recession is even more extreme.

UCI economist Gary Richardson, whose studies focus on the Great Depression, believes the condition of the banking system in today’s recession is even more extreme.

Students of the Great Depression of the 1930s will note that at the outset of this horrible event, property taxes increased beyond all precedent and rationality.

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.

Following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, customers line up outside a branch in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on March 13, 2023. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) The collapses in March of ...

To assemble an album of haunting images from the Great Depression, mostly taken in America, 24/7 Tempo combed through the photo archives of Getty Images and the Library of Congress.

The nasty recession gripping the nation has ignited memories of the Great Depression. Although times are far different, historians and economists see parallels between the Bostons of then and now. … ...