Experts are warning that the US economy is teetering on the brink of a major financial crisis as the number of car ...

WASHINGTON — The government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late Friday, ...

DANVERS — In the small but tidy business district of Danvers stands a 102-year-old bank building with an interesting story or two. Located at the southwest corner of West and Exchange streets, the ...

A new history of the circumstances that led to the Great Depression sheds light on the systemic dangers we face today.

An unflinching look at the Great Depression: 15 facts that put modern struggles in perspective While modern economic ...

ImagineGolf/istockphotoThe Great Depression wasn’t just a rough patch — it was an economic freefall that left millions ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and ...

Following President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's declaration of a four-day nationwide bank holiday during the Great Depression, The Daily Princetonian issued its own currency in denominations of 25 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rate of loan charge-offs by major U.S. banks has exceeded those seen in the early years of the Great Depression as the credit crisis continues to take a toll, Moody's ...

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - On Monday, the president of the Oregon Food Bank delivered her first State of Hunger address at the state capitol. “We are in the worst rate of hunger and food insecurity, since ...

The US economy is facing a 'cascading' crisis 'bigger than the Great Recession' as millions of Americans default on their car ...