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  2. Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...

  3. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). scholarly history online; Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. (2009) online; popular history. Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929–1941 (1948), scholarly social history online; Wicker, Elmus. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression (1996) White, Eugene N.

  4. Causes of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    Essays on the Great Depression (2000) Bernstein, Michael A. The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939 (1989) focus on low-growth and high-growth industries; Bordo, Michael D., Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds. The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth ...

  5. Recession of 1937–1938 - Wikipedia

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    The Great Depression: The United States in the Thirties, Fawcett Publications, 1968; D. A. Hayes, "Business Confidence and Business Activity: A Case Study of the Recession of 1937," Michigan Business Studies v 10 #5 (1951) Meltzer, Allan H. (2003). A History of the Federal Reserve – Volume 1: 1913–1951.

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

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    Kyvig, David E. Daily Life in the United States, 1920–1940: How Americans Lived During the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression online (2004) Leuchtenburg, William E. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932 online (1993) 332pp. Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932 – 1940 (1963) online; Malin, James C.

  7. Comparisons between the Great Recession and the Great Depression

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    A tent city in Sacramento, California was described as "images, hauntingly reminiscent of the iconic photos of the 1930s and the Great Depression" and "evocative Depression-era images." [18] According to economist Irving Fisher, the two dominant factors in a depression are over-indebtness to start with and deflation soon after. [19]

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    An article in the May issue of the New England Journal of Medicine called for wider U.S. use of medication-assisted therapies for addicts, commonly referred to as MATs. It was written by Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse — which helped research Suboxone before it earned FDA approval in 2002 — along with ...

  9. Wall Street crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.