The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it… — John Raese Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the… — Veronica Webb Copy Share Image
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Hoovers didn't like Democrats because of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's libelous partisan attacks on my great-grandfather Herbert Hoover, tethering him to the Great… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“The way I see it right now, the United States of America has destroyed itself, or is destroying itself from within, thus… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective.… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
“ Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It’s like my grandpa always used to say, ‘A butter knife would make a deadlier weapon than a melting stick of butter.’”… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“General Gerardo Machado always had an eye for the ladies and enjoyed partying at the swankiest nightclubs in Havana. For a time… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to… — Chris Hart Copy Share Image
“The Pen Made for the White House Presidents come and go, but one thing remains constant in the West Wing BY DAN… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
My mother gave me very good advice years ago. I grew up in the Great Depression and she always told me to… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the… — Jack Lynch Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb… — George Blake Copy Share Image
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of… — Nick Rahall Copy Share Image
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The… — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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