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"Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we [the FED] did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again." — Ben Bernanke, in a speech at
by Empact 17y ago
"Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we [the FED] did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."
— Ben Bernanke, in a speech at Milton Friedman's 90's birthday, 2002
“It's almost worth the Great Depression, to learn how little our big men know.”
— Will Rogers
- absconditus 17y ago"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and now if I am wrong somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosper. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started. And enormous debt to boot." -- Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt