Over the course of the decade, more than 15 million Americans lost their jobs. The effects of the Great Depression could be felt into the early 1940s. The unemployment rate jumped at a shocking speed.

T he definition of a recession can be pretty technical. The short version is if there’s a drop in gross domestic product (GDP ...

It’s a pretty bad sign when people start making comparisons to the Great Depression, right? The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that after the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed nearly 1,000 ...

JP Morgan Asset Management Executive Director Kerry Craig comments on the Dow Jones' worst month since the Great Depression ...

If we overestimate the costs of trade restrictions today, we make it harder to sell the public on free trade tomorrow.

“In 1930,” Stein deadpans, “the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the. . . Anyone? Anyone?” Silence. “The Great Depressio ...

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Scholars disagree on the effects of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs. Few now argue, as they once did, that these tariffs caused the Great Depression — but many believe they exacerbated it. What no one ...

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Investopedia / Jake Shi The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 increased import tariffs by about 20%, kicking off a global trade war that contributed to the Great Depression's ill effects.

President Trump's tariff campaign has sparked new interest in an iconic scene from a great film about 1980s Chicago.