While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...
The Great Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929, and was the most severe economic downturn in modern history. At its peak in the early 1930s, unemployment in the U.S. reached around ...
Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression. What caused The Great Depression? How bad as The Great Depression? What did ...
The Great Depression is remembered as the worst recession in modern U.S. history. By the end of 1932, the Great Depression had impacted roughly 60 million people. Some, including middle-class families ...