“The tale of America coming out of the Great Depression and not only surviving but actually transforming itself into an economic giant… — Elizabeth Warren 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
Out of the ashes of the Great War came the freewheeling cultural renaissance that was the Jazz Age, but the decade-long party… — Sarah Weinman 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
“the Beaux Arts building’s grand Corinthian columns and its three immense archways. Two majestic marble lions served as bookends. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers.… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have… — Robert Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a… — Jim Powell Copy Share Image
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes 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
We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have… — John Bright 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
“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
[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“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