[Anonymous]

Hello,
I’m working on a lecture for my AP US history classes on the great depression, and I’m trying to find a graph/chart showing the business cycle (if possible) for illustrative purposes. If anyone can point me in the right direction I’d greatly appreciate it.

[jmherbener]

Charts of various data sets relevant to the business cycle are available at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank’s website.

Here is GDP:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?id=GDPA

Once you get to the page, click on “edit graph” and you can set the years included, restricting them to 1929-1941 and the graph will be redrawn.

The NBER is the organization that officially dates business cycles:

http://www.nber.org/cycles.html

[Anonymous]

Excellent! Thank you very much Dr. Herbener.

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