My grandmother kept a jar of buttons in her kitchen drawer for over sixty years, cut from shirts that had long since worn out. It wasn't hoarding, not really. It was a habit built during a decade when ...

Chances are you can’t name a single central banker from the 1920s, but in their day, they were quite the celebrities, even giving false names when traveling by ocean liner in order to dodge the press.

Lessons from The Great Depression: You Just Don't Know As the nation grapples with today's struggling economy and searches for signs of recovery, WSJ's Dennis Berman revisits the Great Depression. He ...

Some of life's basic lessons for living through economic hardships come from our youth of the past, the children of the Great Depression. Lessons learned in the 1920s and '30s seem as pertinent today ...

With a steady drumbeat of bad economic news and a recession that looks to be the most severe since World War II, it is inevitable that there would be many concerns about a repeat of the Great ...

WASHINGTON — The Great Depression seared some life lessons into my parents’ generation. My father hasn’t had a mortgage in decades, even though his children keep telling him about the tax advantages.

Competition Policy and the Great Depression: Lessons Learned and a New Way Forward – Alan J. Meese (William & Mary Law School) ABSTRACT: Using the Great Depression as a case study, the Article ...

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ome local people are sharing their strategies for surviving tough economic times. And they should know - they made it through the Great Depression.While that era may be long gone, they say what got ...

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