Franklin Quote by Joe Biden

“He wondered, often, what it would look like if and when the shit in question hit the fan: The stock market at bottom was…

— Michael Lewis

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

— Amity Shlaes

“There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people. It is called the stock…

— Robert Wright

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He…

— Ida Tarbell

“The U.S. financial markets had always been either corrupt or about to be corrupted.”

— Michael Lewis

Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility…

— Tina Brown

When you have three out of the four largest banks in America today, bigger than they were - significantly bigger than when we bailed…

— Hillary Clinton

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

“For the rest of his life, the greater the chaos, the calmer Rockefeller would become, particularly when others around him were either panicked or…

— Ryan Holiday

“They were afraid,” said Rockefeller, “of having to spend money that they couldn’t prove to themselves they would actually need to spend.” Rockefeller”

— Ted Koppel

“After the stock market crash, some New York editors suggested that hearings be held: what had really caused the Depression? They were held in…

— Studs Terkel