Depth Quote by Barry Eichengreen Download Open image “The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.” — Barry Eichengreen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Depth Great depression Mental health Picnics Unemployment
“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard. — William O'Neill 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 international phenomenon. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Fighting unemployment by methods far more costly than the opening of bread lines and soup kitchens would not have been given serious consideration, regardless… — Philip A. Fisher Copy Share Image
New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression. — John Catsimatidis Copy Share Image
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers 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 market and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing,… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched. — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export. — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what… — Joyce Van Patten Copy Share Image
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image