Farmers had already been struggling before the Great Depression. During the 1920s, the modernisation of farming, including the use of new fertilisers and farm machinery, had led to overproduction.

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...

The longest recession in American history took place between 1929 and 1939. Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis was noteworthy in terms of both its length and its severity.

Before the Christmas break, we ran a short series on how the Great Depression unfolded in Friday's Money Mornings (you can check out the most recent one here, and see the whole history page here).

The era came to a dramatic and abrupt end in October 1929 when the stock market crashed, paving the way for America's Great Depression in the 1930s. Economic upheaval ensued in the years that ...

Professionals relying upon temporary roles live a precarious work life, always worried about ... However, comparing it to the Great Depression is hyperbolic. This is reminiscent of the old Harry ...

One of the most popular New Deal programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps put three million young men to work in the nation's forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.

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 ...