Access Quote by Upton Sinclair

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions…

— Ayn Rand

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the…

— Herbert Hoover

If we are to depression-proof our economy we may need to pay more attention to the radical ideas and policies of those who witnessed…

— John McDonnell

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

— Anonymous

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

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

— Peter Schiff

“In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the “recovery” process, and the end of the depression heralds…

— Murray N. Rothbard

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

“an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.”

— Charles River Editors

“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock market and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“Fighting unemployment by methods far more costly than the opening of bread lines and soup kitchens would not have been given serious consideration, regardless…

— Philip A. Fisher

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a…

— Milton Friedman