The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. — James Tobin 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
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“AA spread like wildfire through a country desperate for hope at the end of Prohibition and in the midst of the Great… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.” — Chuck Palahniuk 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
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
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
U.S. Treasury was able to save the country during the Civil War by expanding the deficit... They saved the economic well-being of… — Scott Bessent 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
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
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the… — Veronica Webb 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
“ 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
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
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 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 Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today.… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
“Central to any understanding of stress, health and disease is the concept of adaptiveness. Adaptiveness is the capacity to respond to external… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“It was a generation growing in its disillusionment about the deepening recession and the backroom handshakes and greedy deals for private little… — Daniel Amory 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
“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
“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
“In surveys, a majority consistently rank FDR near the top of the list for presidential greatness, so it is likely they would… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“both the Great Depression and World War II directly contributed to the Great Leap.” — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots. — James K. Glassman Copy Share Image
These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated. — James K. Glassman Copy Share Image
America has always built ourselves out of adversity. All the way back to the Great Depression. — Jim Gray 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
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
There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash. — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
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