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 ...

Last year’s economics Nobelist, Claudia Goldin, wrote an influential article in 1998 on the rise of high school in the United States. In 1900, about 10 percent of Americans of proper age attended high ...

If you lived through the 2008 recession, you know how painful recessions can be. Even if you didn’t personally lose your job or home, you likely knew more than one person who did. The effects of that ...

• The claim uses 1930 income figures that captured only the richest 10% or so of Americans, which skews the comparison with typical incomes from the entire population today. • One federal statistic ...

Fox Photos/Getty Images President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global ...

The American spirit survived the Great Depression by being built on community, mutual aid, and hard-won ingenuity. The post ...

The United States experienced a Great Depression during the 1930s causing one-quarter of its workforce to be unemployed. Although not formally recognized, a growing body of survey evidence indicates ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...

The Great Depression (1929–1939) remains one of the most difficult economic chapters in American history. With unemployment ...