Agenda 21 Quote by Curtis Bean Dall

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds…

— Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one…

— Milton Friedman

The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe.…

— Milton Friedman

The Depression, which started in 1929 was rather mild from 1929 to 1930. And, indeed, in my opinion would have been over in 1931…

— Milton Friedman

Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3…

— David Stockman

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit…

— Heber J. Grant

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a…

— Milton Friedman

The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as…

— Milton Friedman

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

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

“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