The desire to work is the cry of many thousands of people who complain that there is no work, that they are broke, on the street, living out of their cars, or are camping out in a friend’s or family’s basement. And yet, when we read about the Great Depression, we read about people (mostly men, it seems) roaming the land, desperate for any work they could find. The legendary apple sellers in New York City come to mind. Where are they?

About The Great Depression. The differences from then and now is ridiculous. This research focuses on the children.

Here is a list of US presidents who died in office.

The Americans had a lot to deal with in the couple of years they were at war with the Japanese and German Empires. They became the driving force that won the war for the Allies.

What really caused it was the Federal Reserves exclusive authority to exercise interests rates at its own discretion, and how one day they randomly out of the blue turned the spicket off.

This is an article talking how the bailout is messing up every American tax payer lives.

This is a small tribute to the famous FDR.

Herbert Hoover was elected President of the United Stated in 1928 just in time for the Great Depression of the 30’s. During the 1920’s new companies like General Motors had issued stock that was making many an investor seemingly wealthy. A great number of successful men were operating in shady territory.

You know how it is. You browse flea markets, antique shops, and museums and you see things which make you exclaim, “Grandma had one just like this!” I recently browsed around in the basement of the Vigo County (IN) Historical Society Museum and spied a glucose bucket just like my Grandma and Grandpa Goff’s.

The “credit crunch” is the greatest financial disaster to hit the world since the end of the Second World War. Yet the world has experienced great economic booms followed by precipitous financial busts many times before. Here is the story of some of these earlier “boom and bust” cycles.