Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed ...

A number of factors contributed to the Great Depression, economists tell NPR. During the 1920s, known as the Roaring Twenties ...

did tariffs cause the Great Depression? "Certainly not," says Gary Richardson, economics professor at the University of California, Irvine and former historian of the Federal Reserve System.

The amount of money the government is taking in is outstripped by federal outlays. Fixing this won't be easy, especially in ...