Borrowing Quote by Will Rogers

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

— John Warren Kindt

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

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

— Warren Buffett

Gambling is for men who are so depressed to earn money so why gamble

— Jeff Neri

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

— John Warren Kindt

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit…

— Heber J. Grant

Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.

— Ludwig von Mises

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that…

— John Warren Kindt

“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

We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't…

— Lloyd Blankfein

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

— Irving Kahn

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