Bankers Quote by Louis Thomas McFadden

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

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

The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call…

— Curtis Bean Dall

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament…

— Milton Friedman

“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned…

— Lucy Moore

The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as…

— Milton Friedman

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

— Anonymous

The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in…

— Barack Obama

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

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

The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski