While the Great Depression was a catastrophe beyond anyone's personal control, people made what, in hindsight, we see were ...

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The worst recession in US history shaped how well people would age — before they were even born. Researchers have found 1 that the cells of people who were conceived during the Great Depression, which ...

Many older people today are only 2-3 generations removed from ancestors who lived through the Great Depression and are still apt to regard the event as a reference point as to how bad things can ...

but the 122-year-old automaker would have gone belly up during the Great Depression if it weren’t for opening the brand up to ...

The Great Depression was the deepest and longest economic ... But the public was burned badly in the crash, leaving many people without the resources to spend lavishly on goods and services.

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"Smoot-Hawley was 1930. Other countries retaliated, global trade collapsed and the Great Depression was on. So I think that’s really what has people worried about this." The Smoot-Hawley Act ...

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday ... made profits,” Richardson said of Smoot-Hawley. “But overall, people in the U.S. and people around the world were losers.” ...

By the end of 1932, the Great Depression had impacted roughly 60 million people. Some, including middle-class families with good income and a semblance of safety, lost everything. Read Next ...