In a superficial way, the president most emulated by Donald Trump is Grover Cleveland insofar as Cleveland is the only other ...

The depression worsened for workers and farmers despite Smoot and Hawley's promises of prosperity from high tariffs; consequently, Hawley lost re-nomination, while Smoot was one of 12 Republican ...

It’s such an early priority, and tariffs are such a clear way to help pay for those tax cuts, that Trump’s former national ...

The consensus reaction to Donald Trump’s announcement of what history is bound to call the Trump tariff, to go along with the ...

Anyone who had any doubt that Donald Trump’s love of tariffs is true should take note of his new promise, for Day 1 of his ...

Donald Trump’s trade plan for 2025 would hit China and Mexico hard as well as cause global damage. But he will struggle to ...

And he might be able to do it—including by drawing on little-remembered authorities from the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the previous nadir of U.S. trade policy. It’s such an early priority ...

History shows that higher tariffs have been painful for the stock markets to digest, but President-elect Donald Trump's stand ...

Smoot-Hawley tariffs exacerbated the Great Depression ... has started giving away a lot of its tariff authority,” Irwin said. “And so now we’re in a situation where the president is really ...

Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? . . . It did not work and the U.S. sank deeper into the Great Depression.’ ...