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Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Jacque Fresco

Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants were still intact, and resources were still there, but people didn't have money to buy the products. I felt the rules of the game we play by were outmoded and damaging. This began a life-long quest resulting in the conclusions and designs presented in The Venus Project. — Jacque Fresco

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Mario Cantone

In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years. — Mario Cantone

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Michael A. Stackpole

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content. — Michael A. Stackpole

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful. — Burn Gorman

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Austan Goolsbee

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 Depression. — Austan Goolsbee

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Gene Stratton-Porter

It must have been perfectly dreadful to see a woman every day for five years, and not give her a pie, when you felt sure yours were better than she could make. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Bob Frank

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

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Deb Caletti

My instinct is on target about Jenny, because she answers the phone with, "Is everything all right?"
"I've been abducted," I say.
"Aliens, I hope," she says. "We can make some money when you sell your story to the media. — Deb Caletti

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Scarlett Avery

Our lips meet and he playfully bites me." - Sofia Herrera (Total Abandonment, Unbearable Passion, #4) — Scarlett Avery

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Ben Bernanke

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

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By C.L.R. James

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. — C.L.R. James

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By J.K. Rowling

Ah well ... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let's go. — J.K. Rowling

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Milton Friedman

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933. — Milton Friedman

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Amber L. Johnson

You're my quiet, Lilly. — Amber L. Johnson

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Lloyd Blankfein

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 Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41. — Lloyd Blankfein

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Junot Diaz

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections. — Junot Diaz

Great Depression 1929 Quotes By Amity Shlaes

The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great. — Amity Shlaes