“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the US economy almost completely collapsed,” historian Dana Frank writes in her new book, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? “By 1933 a ...
During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...
This marked the first year-over-year decline of at least 2% in M2 money supply since the depths of the Great Depression in 1933. There are, of course, a couple of asterisks that need to accompany ...
Ensuing special elections handed a slim majority to Democrats. Two years later, a wave of voters hurting from the Great Depression would elect Franklin D. Roosevelt as president and the Democratic ...