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
The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s -… — Thomas Sowell 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’s a tendency for those unfamiliar with cooperatives to look down on them as the leftovers of the mainstream economy, implying that… — Michael Shuman Copy Share Image
What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable. — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“[W.D.] Jones later commented that people frequently helped them, 'Not because it was Bonnie and Clyde. People in them days just helped—no… — John Neal Phillips Copy Share Image
“ God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and… — Erlend Bakke Copy Share Image
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. — Harry S. Dent Copy Share Image
“I looked over at the empty, black windows of the Whites' apartment, windows that were warm and yellow just yesterday, and I… — Jackie French Koller Copy Share Image
Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Burlesque thrived during the Great Depression, and by extension, so, too, did Gypsy [Rose Lee]. Men could no longer afford to pay… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Turning back to the crowd I say, “I am duty bound to make this plea, but I want to say, with all… — Jerry Ash 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
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all."… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little… — Daniel Amory 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
The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from… — Jamelle Bouie 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
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
