As the nation grapples with today's struggling economy and searches for signs of recovery, WSJ's Dennis Berman revisits the Great Depression. He tells colleague Evan Newmark the main lesson from that ...

Chances are you can’t name a single central banker from the 1920s, but in their day, they were quite the celebrities, even giving false names when traveling by ocean liner in order to dodge the press.

Many people today are un­familiar with the term “Great Depression” and the profound signifi­cance it holds in global history. The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s, ...