In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where… — Jimmy Carter 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
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There were, of course, other heroes, little ones who did little things to help people get through: merchants who let profits disappear… — Harvey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions.… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“the cotton fields and strawberry patches of a much harsher world whose tragedies and daily burdens had blunted her temperament and quelled… — James Webb Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“Annual per capita sugar consumption in the depth of the Great Depression was sixteen pounds higher than it had been in 1920.” — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.” — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is… — Barack Obama 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
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
“It was the uniform of a time and place, of a nearly extinct species—the belligerent middle-American redneck who had fought in Korea,… — Matthew Louis Copy Share Image
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Yard after yard passed by, the berths empty, the grass growing about the sinking keel blocks. And now only the gaunt, dumb… — George Blake Copy Share Image
If you look at the Greek economic record, it's been very similar to the U.S. experience in the first four years of… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
“The fever” was (as it usually is in Manchester) of a low, putrid, typhoid kind; brought on by miserable living, filthy neighbourhood,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Back in July 2003, he’d written them a long essay on the causes and consequences of what he took to be a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
