quotes about Great Depression
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I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.
-- Alfred P. Sloan -
The Government's business is in sound condition.
-- Andrew Mellon -
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
-- Ben Bernanke -
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Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
-- Dave Barry -
...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.
-- David Lereah -
We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.
-- David Lereah -
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Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
-- David StockmanSource : "David Stockman on his Book and the Bailouts". Mises Institute Interview, mises.org. September 6, 2013.
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No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.
-- Isaac Asimov -
American labor may now look to the future with confidence.
-- James J. Davis -
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When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.
-- James K. Glassman -
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.
-- John Steinbeck -
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
-- Ralph AbernathySource : Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins
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I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.
-- Robert J. Shiller -
What the market is doing is going through a correction, which it really needed. It's getting down to where it's reasonable.
-- Ted Martinez -
We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
-- John Warren Kindt -
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Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.
-- Kasey Chambers -
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.
-- Bob Frank -
I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.
-- Harry S. DentSource : Harry S. Dent (2000). “The Roaring 2000s Investor: Strategies for the Life You Want”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
-- John Bright -