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Canada's vigorous economy was strong, growing rapidly with no end in sight in 1929. But then the world balance changed, dragging Canadians into the Great Depression.

The laissez faire policies of Calvin Coolidge and Treasury Secretary Mellon led to a cycle of catastrophic economic failures resulting in the Great Depression.

While most Americans eagerly anticipated a return to "Normalcy" after WWI, the economic prosperity of the 1920s was a mirage that camouflaged the coming economic crisis t

Why does the stock market crash like in 1929? How can people protect themselves? The answer might surprise.

Throughout American political history, conservatives and liberals have been battling for control of the government.

'Irrational exuberance' always leads to bubbles and stock market crashes. This article is about some of the early ones, including Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble.

Research shows that laughter is often the best medicine. One of the fastest ways to cure the holiday blues is to read humorous books, where the laughs are guaranteed.

These are difficult times. But the enduring words of history's heroes are a trustworthy guide for a nation seeking solutions to financial crisis and its aftermath.

Now, here's an irony; a young man from one of the least red meat capitalist countries on the planet has won the World Monopoly Championships.

Marguerite Higgins faced gender bias during her career as a war correspondent but her reporting won the first Pulitizer Prize awarded a woman international reporting.

The so-called "go-it-alone" mentality during the inter-war years fueled isolationist views while militarism in Japan and Germany pointed to new global conflicts.

The three Republican administrations of the 1920's adhered to a hands-off policy when it came to the government's relationship to the economy.

While historians generally claim that Herbert Hoover did nothing to stop the Great Depression, he actually did too much and made the crisis worse.

Congress created the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1934, in response to the dangers to America of excessive malfeasance and recklessness on Wall Street.

When the Federal Government found revenue lacking in the early 20th century, it once against turned to an income tax to make up for the shortfall.

By the 1930s new interpretations of the South, the Civil War, and slavery were being considered because of the first person perspectives of former slaves.