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The Forgotten Depression tells of the slump of 1920-21: high unemployment, collapse in commodity prices, upsurge in bankruptcies and sharp break in stock prices. However, unlike the Great Depression, the 1920 affair was over in 18 months. What explains its brevity? James Grant, publisher of the prestigious Grant's Interest Rate Observer, tells the story of America's last governmentally-untreated depression; relatively brief and self-correcting which gave way to the Roaring Twenties...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  say that health officials are monitoring nearly 300 pregnant women infected with the Zika virus across the U.S. and its territories. RT reports: Health officials are keeping tabs on 157 pregnant women who have been infected within the 50 US states, the CDC said on Friday. That is more than three times higher than the CDC previously reported on May 11, when it said that 48 pregnant women in the US had the virus.

That the Great America PAC raised $514k in April in support of Donald Trump isn't very surprising, what is surprising however, is the fact that 81% of those funds came from donors giving less than $200.

The PAC was established in early February, and during that month it raised $74k with just 22% from small donors. In March the PAC gained some momentum, collecting $479k in total donations, but the percentage of small donors was similar to January, coming in at 24%.

Johnny Depp explains on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” how he learned to speak like the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. “He Speaks Real Weird,” says the multiple Oscar and Golden Globes Award nominated actor.  The Daily Caller reports: On Friday, Depp told Ellen on her show that it was difficult to learn how to speak like Trump for the biopic he did about the candidate for “The Art of the Deal: The Movie” by Funny or Die productions. “I just thought it sounded like fun and I figured I could suss out how he speaks,”he said. “It was difficult.