great depression

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and two academic economists — Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig — share this year's Nobel Prize in economics for their work on bank runs.

On This episode of "Texas Matters":There's too much plutonium in Texas. The Pantex facility near Amarillo has so much of the nuclear material that it has…