“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue. — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic… — John Freeman Copy Share Image
By 1929, 5 percent of the population received one-third of the nation's income. The structural weaknesses of this economy plunged the nation… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the… — Raila Odinga Copy Share Image
Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“There were, of course, other heroes, little ones who did little things to help people get through: merchants who let profits disappear… — Harvey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“the cotton fields and strawberry patches of a much harsher world whose tragedies and daily burdens had blunted her temperament and quelled… — James Webb Copy Share Image
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Making money in the markets is tough. The brilliant trader and investor Bernard Baruch put it well when he said, “If you… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“Milwaukee used to be flush with good jobs. But throughout the second half of the twentieth century, bosses in search of cheap… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“From this failure to expunge the microeconomic foundations of neoclassical economics from post-Great Depression theory arose the "microfoundations of macroeconomics" debate, which… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
“It was the uniform of a time and place, of a nearly extinct species—the belligerent middle-American redneck who had fought in Korea,… — Matthew Louis Copy Share Image
