Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression.

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Office workers regularly ask me when I was born. I typically respond that I have no memory of being born and ask if they do. It’s all hearsay – whatever our parents told us.

The Main Street Depositor Protection Act is an attempt to help the banking industry, but it will do far more harm than good.

The proposal to push up some federal deposit insurance coverage to $10 million per account would encourage banks to take ...

Each government failure becomes an excuse to do more of what failed. It is sad but not surprising to see this expensive and destructive cycle of failure repeat itself with banking regulation.

Legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate last month that would raise the federal deposit insurance limit on non-interest-bearing transaction bank accounts from $250,000 to $10 million that's a ...

270 Park Avenue is the address of J.P. Morgan’s remarkable new headquarters, but also a metaphor for the very real dangers ...

A key federal banking regulator will have 1,330 fewer employees through buyouts, other departures, and electing not to fill ...

Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) took to The Wall Street Journal to defend their proposal for raising the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation cap from $250 ...

The experts said that the odds were tiny that the housing market could crash; that the federal housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would never need a bailout; that mortgage-backed securities ...