When the banks put farmers’ homes and land up for auction, their neighbors would arrive already committed to keep the price ...

He oriented his presidential campaign around lower- and middle-income Americans and placed rural communities squarely at the center. He blamed the Depression in part on the farm crisis and laid out a ...

Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression.

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

This restored and colorized collection presents a serene and respectful glimpse into life in the United States during the ...

The worsening global recession has heightened concerns that the United States and other economies could enter a sustained period of deflation, as did Japan in the 1990s and the United States during ...

The best historical example of what happens after a large tariff spike is the Great Depression in the United States. Tariffs in 2025 look eerily similar to the ones enacted in 1930, which is not good ...

The United Kingdom is ranked 5th among the richest countries during the great depression. In 1929, the country reported a GDP of $400.63 billion. Its GDP grew by 16.98% from 1929 to 1937. As of 2024, ...

The woman who became the face of Great Depression hardship went on to live to age 79 after her car broke down at a Nipomo pea ...