Great Depression Quotes
Lessons on hardship, recovery, and resolve.
These Great Depression quotes connect the 1930s downturn to later recessions and the lessons each one taught. For more historical reflection, browse our History quotes collection.
The trade deficit always goes up when the economy is strong and plummets when the economy sinks, as it did during both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of 2008-09.
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
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'Rainwater' was particularly special because it was a complete departure from the suspense novels. It's set in the Great Depression and based on an incident that occurred when my dad was a boy.
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
History Quotes
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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.
Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.
In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.
Lessons Quotes
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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