A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all."… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Yes, we had to take some initial emergency measures to make sure we didn't slip into a Great Depression, but what we've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Jesse Owen was bigger than a black hero, he was an American hero. For me, I looked at it from that perspective.… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — 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, and the things… — Fight club Copy Share Image
I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Gen Zers were small children on 9/11/01. They graduated from high school and (maybe) went through college or university during the deepest… — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Increasingly economic historians can draw analogies between the development of the present crisis and the period between the two world wars, as… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“The true name of marijuana is Cannabis and it used to be given as medicine for centuries. The name marijuana came to… — You Are Being Lied To About Series Copy Share Image
“... the Great Depression had descended on the American economy and there were no jobs available. [He] not only couldn't find a… — Dr. James Dobson Copy Share Image
“After all, Malthus was wrong. Marx was wrong. Democracy did not die during the Great Depression as the Communists predicted. And Khrushchev… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“There is only one historical development that has real significance. Today, when we finally realise that the keys to happiness are in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism. — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“To the Africans throughout the Congo conscripted to work on these and other new enterprises, the Great Depression, paradoxically, brought lifesaving relief.” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The… — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy bookend to the twentieth, opening with a second Pearl Harbor and ending… — David Frum Copy Share Image
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