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

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    Dates Duration (months) Annual Employment Growth [2] 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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)

  5. Economic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1860s were a period of growing protectionism in the United States, while the European free trade phase lasted from 1860 to 1892. The tariff average rate on imports of manufactured goods in 1875 was from 40% to 50% in the United States, against 9% to 12% in continental Europe at the height of free trade. [44]

  6. Timeline of the history of the United States (1930–1949)

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    1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code becomes set of industry censorship guidelines governing production of the vast majority of United States motion pictures released by major studios; is effective for 38 years

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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

  9. Economy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has been the world's largest national economy in terms of GDP since around 1890. [98] For many years following the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the danger of recession appeared most serious, the government strengthened the economy by spending heavily itself or cutting taxes so that consumers would spend more and by ...