American Quote by Charles Duhigg

“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 ten to…

— Elizabeth Warren

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

— Julian Barnes

“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks on this…

— G. Edward Griffin

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families…

— Elizabeth Warren

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

— Anonymous

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in…

— David Talbot

“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions. People lost…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the Great Depression…

— Rutger Bregman

“But the deepest problem was the intervention, the lack of faith in the marketplace. Government management of the late 1920s and 1930s hurt the…

— Amity Shlaes

The last 15 years we had one of the biggest economic booms. But I think a few bubbles have burst in a few countries.…

— Gavin Friday

Even when [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke said the recession was over ... you think that would have been a bigger boom somewhere, but…

— Bill Maher

“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