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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Closed for the Holiday [Pdf]

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"Closed for the Holiday" is an excellent account of the consequential events of the Great Depression focusing on the Stock Market Crash of 1929 as the beginning of the Great Depression, and ending with the emergency bank actions Franklin...
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Pbs: Issues Leading to the 2008 Economic Recession: Mr. Weill Goes to Washington

For Students 9th - 10th
The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 may have been one factor in bringing on the 2008 economic recession in the United States. It allowed investment banking and commercial banking to operate within the same financial institution,...