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

A number of factors contributed to the Great Depression, economists tell NPR. During the 1920s, known as the Roaring Twenties ...

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.

Global stock markets seem to be at sea with no sense of direction or grip. From Dow Jones to Japan's Nikkei to India's Sensex and Nifty, the gale-force winds are knocking off billions of wealth per ...

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

We tend to label trends in society and the economy in order to simplify complex issues, with the latest example being the “Great Stay ... the actions the Federal Reserve has taken to slow ...