Capitalism Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

— Samuel Gompers

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

In God, there is no lack and no recession.

— Marianne Williamson

“Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or engaged in consumption...We lose sight of…

— Ivan Illich

“I decide to scope out craigslist to see all the vibrant economic employment opportunities available to me in this depression. Oh, I’m sorry, I…

— Jarod Kintz

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

— Mark Victor Hansen

There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had…

— Janet Yellen

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

— Ronald Reagan

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers…

— Adam Thomson

In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most…

— Janet Yellen