We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great...
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great D...
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor...
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
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 done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchang...
Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly diffe...
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
