On today's Planet Money, investment manager and author Liaquat Ahamed traces the roots of the Great Depression to a series of decisions by central bankers, including a return to the gold standard.

The gold standard did not cause the Great Depression, but global policies of heavy taxation and tariffs, plus nosebleed spending, did.

During the peak of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate peaked at 24.9% in 1933 — 12.8 million Americans out of a population of 125.6 million — and it was still as high as 17.2% in 1939 ...

It would drop the Gold Standard during the Great Depression in 1933. What Was The Gold Standard? A gold standard is a system in which the standard economic unit — in the case of we Americans ...

The gold standard was used by most major economies from the late 1800s until it was abandoned by many countries in the wake ...

What is the gold standard? ... beginning with actions taken during the Great Depression." When the U.S. stopped using the gold system entirely in 1973, ...

The Great Depression was a devastating and prolonged economic depression that followed the crash of the U.S. stock market in 1929. ... the gold standard, a drop in lending, tariffs, ...

The Great Depression (1929-1939) The 1920s, ... For instance, Spain was believed to have avoided the depression due to its non-gold-standard monetary policy, ...

What Was the Great Depression? ... Roosevelt took the country off the gold standard and created jobs through new federal public works programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

In a head-to-head comparison with electroconvulsive therapy, people with treatment-resistant depression responded as well to ketamine infusions as the former.

The Great Depression was the worst economic period in US history. Starting in 1929, when the stock market crashed, it lasted until 1939 when the US began mobilizing for World War II.