I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama… — Tony Kushner 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
“The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders …… — Harry Leslie Smith 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
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
“When I was young I wanted to be just like him. One of the charm, of a bright orange smile and muscular… — Larsen Bowker 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
No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the… — Raila Odinga 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
“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
“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was… — Adolph L. Reed Jr 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
“... 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
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One 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
“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or… — George W. Bush 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
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Burlesque thrived during the Great Depression, and by extension, so, too, did Gypsy [Rose Lee]. Men could no longer afford to pay… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially… — Scott Simon 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
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
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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His… — Abhijit Banerjee 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
My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and moved to wherever… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than… — Milton Friedman 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
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that… — David Lereah 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 position as an artist, he was unable to secure any kind of work. Weeks and months went by without success. Finally, he was hired by a small Texaco service station at the…” quote by Dr. James Dobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/dr-james-dobson-109434_american-economy_the-great-depression-had-descended-on-th_2468149.jpg)
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