Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

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 ...

As far as economic events go, true depressions are rare. Over the last century, the Great Depression of the 1930s was the only economic downturn in the U.S. that earned the distinction of being ...

• 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 ...

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the... President Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and ...

Economic depressions are severe recessions lasting many years with over 10% annual GDP decline. Depressions cause global impacts like massive unemployment and business failures. The US experienced one ...