I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping. — David Lereah Copy Share Image
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
“Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great… — Steny Hoyer 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
“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
“ 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
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
When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“In spring, 1937, of course, families still rode the rails because of the Depression, which everyone said was already in the history… — Ronald Geigle Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS AND STIMULUS Keynesian economics is based on the notion that unemployment arises when total or aggregate demand in an economy… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
“It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no men holding signs that… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“At the end of the fifteenth century, the poet Thomas Hoccleve declared in The Regiment of Princes, “Allas, wher ys this worldes… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was… — Adolph L. Reed Jr Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
'Rainwater' was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It's set in the Great Depression and based… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
“That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
