#great depression

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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.


Jon Meacham


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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.


John Mellencamp


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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.


Chuck Palahniuk


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Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.


Lawrence R. Klein


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During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.


Jerry Stiller


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The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.


Jay Carney


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The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.


John Freeman


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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.


Milton Friedman


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But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.


Alexi Giannoulias


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Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.


Robert Gibbs


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