The Great Depression, spanning from 1929 to the late 1930s, was a time of unprecedented economic hardship that affected ...

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The U.S. will suffer one of the largest hits to its growth prospects in a new era that will see most economies grow more slowly than previously expected, the fund said.

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that Trump’s tariffs would slow growth, not only for the U.S. but globally. The ...

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Frank Lucas is a fifth-generation farmer from Western Oklahoma. In his Washington,D.C. office, he keeps photos from the Great Depression taken in his Third District as a reminder of thepast.

triggering The Great Depression and World War II. The story starts before President Herbert Hoover took office in 1929. His predecessor, President Calvin Coolidge, and his administration took a ...

People stand on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression ... until the outbreak of World War II increased demand for factory production in 1939. “Economic depression cannot be cured ...

FILE - Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression ... recovery until the outbreak of World War II increased demand for factory production in 1939.