SNAP Benefits: U.S. Faces ‘Greatest Hunger Crisis Since the Great Depression’

Due to the ongoing government shutdown, the prospect of November's SNAP benefits going unpaid indefinitely is growing closer.

This Day in History: Stock market crash triggers the Great Depression on Oct. 29, 1929

When combined with the agricultural decline worldwide, the resulting loss of confidence in the banking and investment ...

The rise and fall of globalisation: why the world’s next financial meltdown could be much worse with the US on the sidelines

With no single dominant power waiting to take over from the US, the impacts of the next financial crisis could have ...
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Andrew Sorkin Says Great Depression 'Felt Very 2025ish:' Draws Parallels To Private Credit, Tokenization, Growing Leverage Risks

Andrew Ross Sorkin is sounding the alarm over what he sees as unsettling similarities between today's financial landscape and the run-up to the 1929 stock market crash.
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The most extreme hurricanes in history

Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica with the strongest wind speeds the Caribbean nation has ever experienced. Here’s how it ...

Joseph J. Ellis Doesn’t Think You Would Have Abolished Slavery, Either

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of ...

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All

AI may not simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab ...
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'How Did That Work Out?': Trump Tries To Rewrite History, Says The Great Depression Happened Because Tariffs Were Banned In 1913

During a recent bilateral meeting in the Oval Office with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, Donald Trump invented his own history as he made the wild claim that the Great Depression happened because ...