Data Quote by Jan Hatzius

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse;…

— Srully Blotnick

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

— Harry S. Dent

In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at…

— Bernie Sanders

I have concluded that most PhD economists under appraise the power of the common-stock-based "wealth effect," under current extreme conditions... "Wealth effects" involve mathematical…

— Charlie Munger

The advantages of wealth are greatly exaggerated.

— Leland Stanford

“Recently, the International Monetary Fund published a report which revealed that too much inequality even inhibits economic growth.22 Perhaps the most fascinating finding, however,…

— Rutger Bregman

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian,…

— Karl Lagerfeld

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

— Alissa Quart

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality…

— Frances O'Grady

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies…

— Christina Romer