Tag: Great Depression

Facing pressure from the retail industry to add time to the holiday shopping season during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving earlier in the calendar -- or at least tried to. (AP Photo)

Shutting down economy creates risk of causing depression

Jay Heflin · April 17, 2020 3:00 am

IMF: Coronavirus pandemic has caused worst economic crisis since Great Depression

Joel Gehrke · April 14, 2020 3:37 pm

White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, in Washington.

White House brings back economic adviser who warned pandemic could cause Great Depression

Nihal Krishan · March 20, 2020 5:56 pm

‘We take it as it comes’: Oldest married couple celebrates record 80th anniversary

Zach Halaschak · December 16, 2019 10:47 pm

The Ideas that Made America is a worthy crash course in US intellectual history: Book review

Regina Barton · August 12, 2019 7:52 pm

Magazine - Personal Finance

Then and Now: The minimum wage

Jay Caruso · June 21, 2019 3:00 am

This is an undated photo of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Campobello Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada.

Revisiting the old New Deal

John Graber · June 5, 2019 6:26 pm

Bonnie and Clyde get their just deserts

Jay Caruso · April 5, 2019 12:00 am

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks as Sen. Ed Markey, (D-MA) right, listens during a news conference announcing Green New Deal legislation in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

The Green New Deal and the politics of pessimism

David Davenport · February 25, 2019 4:07 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping is challenging other countries, like the U.S., to pursue a green recovery in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

China warns against ‘repetition’ of world war or Great Depression

Joel Gehrke · November 28, 2018 2:06 am

People wait in line for a Best Buy store to open for a Black Friday sale on Thanksgiving Day.

Beltway Confidential

History’s other Black Friday deals weren’t always full of cheer

J. Mark Powell · November 23, 2018 5:00 am

The Retropedestrian

Thomas Vinciguerra · September 23, 2018 8:54 am