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Revision as of 09:47, 8 January 2009
1850-1918
- 11 US recessions [1] including the panic of 1893
1914-18
- First World War
- General suspension of the gold standard.
1918
- Treaty of Versailles: war reparations [2].
1919-21
- British post-war recession [3].
1921-23
- United States post-war recession [4].
1923
- German hyperinflation [5].
1925
- Britain rejoins the gold standard.
1926
- British general strike.
1929
- The stock market crash of 1929.
1930
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act [6][7]
- US GNP drops 9.4% from the previous year. The unemployment rate climbs from 3.2 to 8.7%. By the end of the year, 1,350 banks have closed.
1931
- US banking crisis, with the failure of over 1800 banks.
- Britain, Sweden and Japan leave the gold standard [8]
1932
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation [9] created
- Federal Home Loan Act [10]
- Unemployment is 25 percent.
- National income is 50 percent below that of 1929.
- Stock market is 75 percent below its 1929 high.
- 10,000 banks have failed since 1929, (40 percent of the 1929 total).
1933
- Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president.
- President declares a banking holiday and temporarily closes all U.S. banks using the Emergency Banking Act 1933[11].
- The National Recovery Administration and the Public Works Administration created by the National Recovery Act 1933 [12]
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [13] created
- Money supply is 40 percent lower than 1929.
- Approximately 4,000 commercial banks fail.
- 1,700 S&Ls fail
1934
- US recovery begins: GNP rises 7.7 percent, and unemployment falls to 21.7 percent.
1935
- US recovery continues: the GNP grows another 8.1 percent, and unemployment falls to 20.1 percent.
1936
1937
- US Recession of 1937 [14]: industrial production down 40 percent; unemployment rises by 4 million; stock market drps by 48 percent.
1938
1939