During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one. — Jerry Stiller Copy Share Image
The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most. — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know. — Will Rogers 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
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We call for a green New Deal, like the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression, but in this… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek,… — Robert J. Shiller 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
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
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
No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Political uncertainty around the world has more than doubled since the election of Trump. To find anything comparable we have to go… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
“She wondered what it was about storytelling that made people want it almost as much as food and water, even more so… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy… — Joseph Stiglitz 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
“Born on St. Valentine’s Day in 1913, Jimmy Hoffa was seven years older than Frank Sheeran. Yet both grew to manhood in… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“In surveys, a majority consistently rank FDR near the top of the list for presidential greatness, so it is likely they would… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
“This crisis didn’t have to happen. America had a boom-and-bust cycle from the 1790s to the 1930s, with a financial panic every… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Back in July 2003, he’d written them a long essay on the causes and consequences of what he took to be a… — Michael Lewis 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
In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt… — Bertrand Russell 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
![“World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education…” quote by Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/860/joseph-stiglitz-1351_america_world-war-ii-was-really-unusual-because_156000.jpg)
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