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This marked the first time since the Great Depression that M2 fell by at least 2% on a year-over-year basis. If there's a silver lining in this data, it's that M2 money supply has returned to ...

Over the past 153 years, there have only been five instances where U.S. M2 money supply has contracted by at least 2%: the late 1870s, 1893, 1921, during the Great Depression, and 2023 (M2 money ...

Really bad. Worse-than-the-Great-Depression bad. Isabel Brown, a content creator for conservative groups including Turning Point USA, PragerU and Students For Trump, laid out the case in an Aug ...

Invention is the mother of necessity, as the old saying goes. Economic hardship often leads to new ways of doing things or new inventions entirely. The 2020 COVID lockdowns put ...

Of course, regardless of the severity of economic hardships today, there are many things we can learn from how people lived during the Great Depression, including a number of key money-saving ...

While this frugal habit, adopted by many households living through the Great Depression, is generally intended to save money on transportation costs like gas, it can also help to prevent against ...

Sponsor Message Today we'll look at how leaders around the globe intervened to turn the international economy around, and in the process, how the Great Depression rapidly transformed the ...

It didn't matter if they held through the Great Depression, Black Monday, the dot-com bubble, or financial crisis -- they would have made money. The power of perspective and long-term thinking is ...