He currently researches and teaches economic sociology and the social studies of finance at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. JulPo / Getty Images Recessions seem to occur every decade or so in ...

Since the Great Depression, the United States has suffered 14 official recessions. Here, we break down each one. A recession is an economic downturn that typically lasts for more than a few months.

But in most cases, a recession doesn't lead to an economic depression. Since the Great Depression, the US has experienced 14 recessions, the last of which occurred in 2020 due to the COVID-19 ...

Below is a graph showing the yield spread between ... Periods shaded gray represent economic recessions. The yield offered by 10-year bonds has almost always been higher than that of 3-month ...

But an economic plan focused on causing deliberate harm to the American economy relies on old, discredited thinking: that recessions purge the system of waste, discipline workers into accepting ...