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The Historical Parallels We tend to think of the Depression as having been triggered by the stock-market crash of 1929. The Wall Street crash is conventionally said to have begun on "Black Thursday" - Oct. 24, 1929, when the Dow Jones industrial average declined 2% - though in fact the market...
For some students, this financial crisis will hit hard. In addition to losing potential jobs, students who belong to one of a slew of “investment clubs” may be losing real money as well. Acumen Financial Association is one of Harvard’s many pre...
Just a few weeks after Harvard stole back the top spot in the U.S. News college rankings, the University has been ranked number one again—this time for its brand. The rankings, released earlier this month by Global Language Monitor, a company that uses quantitative methods to analyze...
If the experts are right, the nation now risks great financial hardship, because there was no one to stand up and explain the situation. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 778 points on the news. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson warned Monday afternoon that car loans and student loans were likely...
So perhaps it shouldn't have come as such a shock when the House of Representatives failed to pass the bill Monday afternoon, or that the rest of the day was spent in partisan fury and recriminations: Democrats blamed Republicans, Republicans blamed the Dems, the House blamed the Senate, the...