Author Andrew Ross Sorkin, skilled at writing about America’s financial history, tackles the Great Depression in his new book ...

The Great Depression was a landmark event that had lasting economic, social, and political repercussions, some of which are still with us nearly a century later. Learn more about the Great Depression ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin's "1929" is already a bestseller. Many who read this book will look for parallels to today.

This year is the 90th anniversary of the stock market crash on Oct. 29, 1929, that helped to plunge the world into the Great Depression. According to history.com, the U.S. stock market experienced ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hersh Shefrin analyzes how psychology impacts markets and policy. A quick summary of the takeaways from Part III appears in a ...

Robert F. Bruner is university professor at the University of Virginia, dean emeritus of the Darden School of Business and a senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. He is a co-author of ...

Few people are alive anymore who remember living through the stock market crash of 1929. But plenty of people still view that fateful plunge as a worst-case scenario for what might befall investors.

Ninety years ago this fall, the stock market experienced the Great Crash. Shortly thereafter, America’s economy slumped into the Great Depression. Though misconceptions about them abound, these events ...