The current financial crisis is ferocious, but history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression Economic history is back in vogue. In the first half of 2008, surging prices of oil and other ...

Contagion Effect Leading to Global Financial Crisis The financial markets’ collapse in the U.S. had a contagion effect that spread to other countries, with many economists dubbing it a global ...

oatawa / Getty Images The 2008 financial crisis was one of the most devastating financial episodes in modern history. It caused massive job losses, home foreclosures, company closures, and a ...

Today, in fact, the normal operations of the federal government are in many ways the legacy of the changes wrought by the war on terrorism and the financial crisis. This oral history is compiled ...