Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman 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
I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down… — Alexi Giannoulias Copy Share Image
In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
These are American success stories. And yet the centerpiece of the Presidents entire re-election campaign is attacking success. Is it any wonder… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it… — John Mellencamp 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
“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
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a… — Irving Fisher 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
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
If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image