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Got old savings bonds lying around? Good luck cashing them.

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Oct 12, 2023
New York Times reporter Rob Copeland dug into why it's become "so impossible" to cash a savings bonds these days.
To cash in a savings bond, you can either try a bank branch or mail it in to the U.S. Treasury.
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Just how bad is this economic crisis going to get?

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Aug 20, 2020
We asked a group of experts in economic history.
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Recessions are bad for labor movements ... except when they're not

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 31, 2020
What the history of union movements can teach us about worker power during the pandemic.
Women strikers on a New York City picket line during the Uprising of the 20,000, a garment workers strike of 1909 and 1910.
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Why leaders look to infrastructure spending in recessions

by David Brancaccio , Rose Conlon and Erika Soderstrom
May 29, 2020
The pitch for infrastructure projects recalls Depression-era investment in roads and bridges.
The on-ramp to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was built as part of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.
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What we've learned so far about where the economy is headed

by Maria Hollenhorst and Kai Ryssdal
May 22, 2020
It’s been eight weeks since the CARES Act became law. Will the economic crisis it was meant to combat get as bad as the Great Depression?
There's still a lot that we don't know about how economic recovery will play out.
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How the COVID-19 economy is changing Americans' spending habits

by David Brancaccio , Chris Farrell , Candace Manriquez Wrenn and Erika Soderstrom
May 11, 2020
Post-lockdown spending sprees are looking a lot less likely.
Americans won't be racing out to spend money as lockdown restrictions ease, early indicators suggest.
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U.S. economy loses 20.5 million jobs, unemployment rate rises to 14.7%

by Janet Nguyen
May 8, 2020
Since the crisis started, more than 33 million people have filed for unemployment.
A view of a closed business in New York City.
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What if Florida caused the Great Depression?

by Christopher Knowlton
Jan 17, 2020
An argument that Florida's land boom in the 1920s, not the stock market crash, was the real reason for the financial crisis that followed.
Aerial view of the Flamingo Hotel and several yachts in Biscayne Bay beyond, Miami Beach, Florida, 1920s. The Flamingo was built by Carl Fisher and was one of the first large hotels built in the area. It has subsequently been demolished.
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U.S. markets on track for worst December since the Great Depression

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Dec 25, 2018
...and there are many reasons why.
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A trio of proposed tariffs echo America's protectionist past

by Sarah Gardner and Scott Tong
Nov 13, 2017
Proposed tariffs in three different industries — solar power, appliances and jets — echo the protectionist tariffs that helped deepen the Great Depression.
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