Data Quote by Murray Rothbard

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 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

Even in the worst depression, 25% of businesses are booming - in your industry find out what they’re doing and do it.

— Mark Victor Hansen

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

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

— Samuel Gompers

“If we have been depressed before, a low mood can become easier and easier to trigger over time, because each time it returns, the…

— J. Mark G. Williams

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.

— Charles Duhigg

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

— Nick Murray

In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a…

— Wilbur Ross

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

— Pernell Roberts