Great Depression (1929)

by Frank James Here's the transcript for President-elect Barack Obama's news conference earlier today on the economy and his economic team: PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA: Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Please have a seat. Thank you all for being here....

by Mark Silva President Bush has gone to Peru. But Bush, making his last scheduled trip abroad as president, has not gotten away from the economic crisis that has beset his nation and many others near the close of his......

Obama's press conference, aside from announcing his economic team, was not particularly newsworthy. He was grim on economic prospects at the top. The gloomy talk warns against irrational optimism about what he can accomplish in the short term, and......

While Schwab was building up Bethlehem Steel, he was also engaging his workers' talents outside the plant. He gave the employees $25,000 to develop athletics among themselves, and the result was a championship soccer team. Between 1913 and 1930, the...

President Bush's corporate reform initiatives will do little to restore confidence in America's battered business culture, whether by shoring up investor trust or discouraging genuinely fraudulent behavior in the executive suite, according to business...

Ronald Wilson Reagan, who grew up a shoe salesman's son in northern Illinois, became a movie star in the golden days of Hollywood and emerged as a conservative icon and a two-term president who helped end the Cold War, died Saturday after suffering from...

The problem for Bethlehem Steel was that the Mexicans didn't stay with the company. Soon after they reached Bethlehem in 1923, they began to disperse. Twenty-four percent of those who arrived in the spring were gone by midsummer, 53 percent by the fall...

When media mogul Rupert Murdoch bought the Manhattan triplex where Laurance S. Rockefeller once lived, even hard-to-impress New Yorkers let out a collective gasp. The $44 million price tag set a record last fall for residential real estate in the Big...

This battered city struggled to regain the footing of normal life Thursday, but its recovery remained as unsteady as some of the tottering buildings that have hampered workers clearing the rubble of the World Trade Center. As thousands returned to...