As far as economic events go, true depressions are rare. Over the last century, the Great Depression of the 1930s was the only economic downturn in the U.S. that earned the distinction of being ...

A new study published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science offers a nuanced look at how genetic risk for depression interacts with social and economic life circumstances to influence ...

The Great Depression always seems to play out to us in black and white. Images are seared in our collective history — from ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Is there an upside to being depressed? For almost four ...

An economic depression could be looming large and it has me worried. These kinds of economic events lead to a lower standard of living, forcing people to choose between expenses they wouldn't have ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

If you lived through the 2008 recession, you know how painful recessions can be. Even if you didn’t personally lose your job or home, you likely knew more than one person who did. The effects of that ...

What makes a recession a depression? And what constitutes a recession in the first place? Unfortunately, there's no simple answer. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has declared a dozen ...