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  2. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the 1920s, the banking system in the U.S. was about $50 billion, which was about 50% of GDP. [85] From 1929 to 1932, about 5,000 banks went out of business. By 1933, 11,000 of US 25,000 banks had failed. [86] Between 1929 and 1933, U.S. GDP fell around 30%; the stock market lost almost 90% of its value. [87] In 1929, the unemployment rate ...

  3. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States economy was mostly agricultural with increasingly industry throughout the first third of the 19th century. Most people lived on farms and produced much of what they consumed. A considerable percentage of the non-farm population was engaged in handling goods for export. The country was an exporter of agricultural products.

  4. History of the United States (1917–1945) - Wikipedia

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    GDP in United States January 1929 to January 1941. Historians and economists still have not agreed on the causes of the Great Depression, but there is general agreement that it began in the United States in late 1929 and was either started or worsened by "Black Thursday," the stock market crash of Thursday, October 29, 1929. Sectors of the US ...

  5. List of countries by largest historical GDP - Wikipedia

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    This list of countries by largest GDP shows how the membership and rankings of the world's ten largest economies as measured by their gross domestic product has changed. . While the United States has consistently had the world's largest economy for some time, in the last fifty years the world has seen both rises and falls in relative terms of the economies of other count

  6. Timeline of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    Quarterly GDP growth turns positive by summer, but overall annual rate is −1.3% growth. Unemployment peaks at 25%. 2 million are homeless. Industrial production is half of what it was in 1929. US nominal GDP bottoms out at $57 billion (down from $105 billion in 1929)

  7. List of economic expansions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Annual GDP Growth [3] Description Oct 1945– Nov 1948 37 +5.2% +1.5%: As the United States demobilized from World War II, the decline in government spending caused a brief recession in 1945 and suppressed GDP growth for several years thereafter. However, private economic activity expanded at a brisk pace throughout this period.

  8. List of recessions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1826, England forbade the United States to trade with English colonies, and in 1827, the United States adopted a counter-prohibition. Trade declined, just as credit became tight for manufacturers in New England. [9] 1833–1834 recession 1833–1834 ~1 year ~4 years The United States' economy declined moderately in 1833–34.

  9. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Between 1929 and 1932, real GDP fell 17 percent worldwide, and by 26 percent in the United States, but most economic historians now believe that only a minuscule part of that huge loss of both world GDP and the United States' GDP can be ascribed to the tariff wars...