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
“No one knows it yet, but Cape Breton is a dress rehearsal for the Great Depression.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald 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
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
“Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, ' Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression—but it won’t stop another bubble.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The stock market crashed in October 1929. But that was not the cause of what caused the Great Depression. It was, in… — Milton Friedman 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
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
“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
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“the Occupy Movement flared up and began setting up tents in public parks all around the nation, from New York City to… — Thom Hartmann 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
“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
“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
“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks… — G. Edward Griffin 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
“At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky 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
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin Copy Share Image
Americans who have parents raised during the Great Depression or World War II understand how drastically things have changed on the home… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
