Collapse Quote by Graydon Carter

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th…

— Mark Skousen

It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't…

— Jim Wallace

I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living in one!...…

— Louis Auchincloss

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

— James Surowiecki

Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.

— Yoko Ono

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

— Ben Shapiro

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

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a…

— Tom Brokaw

Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even…

— Robert P. Murphy

I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially…

— David Simon

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of…

— Nick Clooney

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