Depression Quote by Irving Kahn

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

I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of…

— 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

I've lived through the Great Depression.

— Carl Reiner

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all…

— Will Rogers

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential…

— Thomas Woods

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

— Walter Annenberg

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

— John C. Bogle

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money.

— Ann Rutherford

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

— Harry S. Dent