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A new book reimagines the Depression-era photography of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, mapping a country of strangers and ghosts.
As a result, comparisons with the Great Depression-era Smoot-Hawley Act have rung in loud. Business Insider also reported that the dramatic rise in tariffs under the Trump administration marks the ...
WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...
On Wednesday, Trump stated that the 1930s Great Depression could have been avoided if tariffs on imported goods had continued. "From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United ...
People stand on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression, as they wait for food on New York’s Lower East Side in 1930. WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression ...
President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while announcing his massive tariff plan to hit trading partners. The president ...
On TikTok, some have declared a full-blown “Meme Drought,” dubbing it the “Great Meme Depression of 2025.” The panic began on March 10, when user @goofangel posted a video titled “TikTok ...
The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.
The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness. The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a ...