Based on what 155 years of historic precedent tells us about notable declines in M2 and the performance of the U.S. economy ...

former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke actually apologized for the Federal Reserve’s actions during the Great Depression, placing much of the blame on the Fed itself. Around the time of the Great ...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Defying fears of a pandemic-driven Great Depression and bucking Federal Reserve ...

Over the last century, the Federal Reserve has compiled an astonishingly ... likely would have been a short recession into the Great Depression. In the 1970s, its mishandling of monetary policy ...

The Great Depression resulted from a multitude of different complex policy and economic factors, including ill-timed tariffs and misguided moves by the young Federal Reserve. "The crash was not a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

When you think of investing you may lean more toward vague stock market options rather than the gold standard -- but ...

Why did the United States abandon the gold standard? In an article published recently by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Maria Hasenstab cites the international gold shortage during the Great ...