Have you ever read about the Great Depression on the Wikipedia site? It’s actually quite interesting. It’s incredibly hard for me not to draw comparisons to our current “Great Recession†which I think will ultimately be renamed the Second Depression, but I guess history will determine that.
Anyway, what I find most interesting is that the causes and solutions for the Great Depression are very debatable based on your political views. Was it due to monetary tightening and limitations of the feds due to regulation? Was it solved by WWII, or did that just speed up the resolution a bit as it put millions to work on military projects?
It’s definitely worth a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression