A new home, new life Dean Abbott She later remarried, and in 1952 the couple moved into a home in Mineral Wells. Abbott said it felt like luxury to have indoor plumbing and electricity.

Living With Debt During the Great Depression, many middle-class families were shouldering consumer debt.They couldn’t keep up with the repayments once the economy tanked and their jobs were lost.

3. Cooking at home. Just Life | Shutterstock. Cooking at home and learning how to make home-cooked meals is one of the frugal habits Gen Z is borrowing from the Great Depression era. According to ...

October 29, 1929 was “Black Tuesday”, the day the New York Stock Market crashed. On June 17, 1930, U.S. President Herbert Hoover passed the Hawley-Smoot Act, imposing tariffs on 20,000 ...

Most historians look back on the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act of 1930 as a mistake that made a bad economic climate much worse. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.

The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness. The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a ...

Trump's tariff hike mirrors the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which exacerbated the Great Depression and led to a major shift in US trade policy.

Why does everyone think we’re in for a 2nd Great Depression? Trump’s tariff announcement on April 2, 2025, was a long time coming, but the extent of the tax hike was much bigger than expected.

On Wednesday, Trump stated that the 1930s Great Depression could have been avoided if tariffs on imported goods had continued. "From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, ...

President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while announcing his massive tariff plan to hit trading partners. The president ...

The panic began on March 10, when user @goofangel posted a video titled “TikTok Great Depression March 2025.” He says, “Nine days into March and we haven’t had a single original meme ...