New economic projections from Federal Reserve officials this week will provide the most tangible evidence yet of how U.S.

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

On the opposite end of the spectrum, the average economic expansion has endured for around five years. Over the last eight ...

The Federal Reserve, established in 1913 ... the Fed has taken notable actions during critical periods such as the Great Depression, the post-World War II era, the Great Inflation of the 1970s ...

Investors are growing increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump’s tariff policies and federal layoffs could spark a ...

did tariffs cause the Great Depression? "Certainly not," says Gary Richardson, economics professor at the University of California, Irvine and former historian of the Federal Reserve System.