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Bank run on the Seamen's Savings Bank during the panic of 1857. There have been as many as 48 recessions in the United States dating back to the Articles of Confederation, and although economists and historians dispute certain 19th-century recessions, [1] the consensus view among economists and historians is that "the [cyclical] volatility of GNP and unemployment was greater before the Great ...
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A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960. University of Chicago Press. pp. 231– 239. ISBN 978-0691003542. Leab, Daniel, ed. Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions (2 vol ABC-CLIO, 2014). Meltzer, Allan H. (2003). A History of the Federal Reserve – Volume 1: 1913–1951. University of Chicago Press. pp. 109– 131.
Recession Period. Start. End. Total Time Elapsed. The Great Depression–Late ’20s and Early ’30s. August 1929. March 1933. 3 years, 7 months. The Great Recession–aka The 2008 Financial Crisis
After the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American economy experienced robust growth, with periodic lesser recessions, for the rest of the 20th century. The federal government enforced the Securities Exchange Act (1934) [12] and The Chandler Act (1938), [13] which tightly regulated the financial markets. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ...
The recession of 2020, was the shortest and steepest in U.S. history and marked the end of 128 months of expansion. Key Predictors, Indicators and Warning Signs of a Recession
The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP.