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  2. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s, the banking system in the U.S. was about $50 billion, which was about 50% of GDP. [85] From 1929 to 1932, about 5,000 banks went out of business. By 1933, 11,000 of US 25,000 banks had failed. [86] Between 1929 and 1933, U.S. GDP fell around 30%; the stock market lost almost 90% of its value. [87] In 1929, the unemployment rate ...

  3. Timeline of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    Quarterly GDP growth turns positive by summer, but overall annual rate is −1.3% growth. Unemployment peaks at 25%. 2 million are homeless. Industrial production is half of what it was in 1929. US nominal GDP bottoms out at $57 billion (down from $105 billion in 1929)

  4. History of the United States (1917–1945) - Wikipedia

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    GDP in United States January 1929 to January 1941. Historians and economists still have not agreed on the causes of the Great Depression, but there is general agreement that it began in the United States in late 1929 and was either started or worsened by "Black Thursday," the stock market crash of Thursday, October 29, 1929. Sectors of the US ...

  5. Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The overall course of the Depression in the United States, as reflected in per-capita GDP (average income per person) shown in constant year 2000 dollars, plus some of the key events of the period. Dotted red line = long-term trend 1920–1970. [47] In most countries of the world, recovery from the Great Depression began in 1933. [8]

  6. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States economy was mostly agricultural with increasingly industry throughout the first third of the 19th century. Most people lived on farms and produced much of what they consumed. A considerable percentage of the non-farm population was engaged in handling goods for export. The country was an exporter of agricultural products.

  7. Causes of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The years 1929 to 1941 had the highest total factor productivity growth in the history of the U. S., ... USA GDP annual pattern and long-term trend, 1920–40, in ...

  8. The Great Depression: America, 1929–1941 - Wikipedia

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    The Great Depression: America, 19291941 (ISBN 978-0-8129-2327-8) is a 1984 history of the Great Depression by acclaimed historian Robert S. McElvaine.In this interpretive history, McElvaine discusses the causes and the results of the worst depression in American history, covering the time from 1929 to 1941.

  9. List of economic expansions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Annual GDP Growth [3] Description Oct 1945– Nov 1948 37 +5.2% +1.5%: As the United States demobilized from World War II, the decline in government spending caused a brief recession in 1945 and suppressed GDP growth for several years thereafter. However, private economic activity expanded at a brisk pace throughout this period.