A series of bank runs occurred during the Great Depression—in fact, many say this prolonged the financial crisis into a decade-long ordeal. During the Roaring 20s, banks made it easy for ...

Donald Trump has officially revealed when America was last “great”: the 1930s.

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created during the Great Depression to restore ... safety of their deposits and triggering bank runs,” said Patricia McCoy, a law professor ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

Regulations have changed significantly since the Great Depression to offer greater protection ... This generally prevents bank runs, where people get worried about their money and try to withdraw ...