George Segal’s Depression Bread Line sculpture, which symbolizes the struggles of the Great Depression, at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC.
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George Segal’s Depression Bread Line sculpture, which symbolizes the struggles of the Great Depression, at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington DC.
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The Federal Reserve Bank in Washington DC.
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Arturo Di Modica’s Charging Bull sculpture in New York City’s Financial District, symbolizing America’s financial power.
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Supply and demand chart.
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U.S. currency.
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World currency.
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Nineteenth-century stock certificate.
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Stock market electronic board.
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New York Stock Exchange.
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The North Side Headquarters for the World Bank in Washington DC.
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Under the gold standard, money is backed by a fixed amount of gold, which allows a country to only print as much currency as there is gold to back it up.
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President Woodrow Wilson who signed the Federal Reserve Act into law in 1913, creating the Federal Reserve System.
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Newspaper headlines from the Great Recession.
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Statue in Edinburgh, Scotland, memorializing Scottish thinker Adam Smith, considered the father of modern economics.
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John Maynard Keynes was a British economist who influenced a school of thought in which government spending is seen as an economic stimulus.
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Alan Greenspan, an American economist, served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the U.S. from 1987 to 2006.
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