Trump’s critics are always quick to see the sinister sides of his actions and declarations. An even greater danger may lie in ...
President Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as his exemption of North American trade agreement-protected goods, ...
Until Donald Trump, no U.S. president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history or so incompetent in putting his own ...
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, signed into law in 1930, was a U.S. legislative measure that raised tariffs on over 20,00 ...
Donald Trump’s tariff agenda is a near-repeat of America’s trade agenda of the 1930s. That did not end well for anyone.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was introduced following the 1929 stock market crash by Republican politicians Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis Hawley. Ben Stein as an economics teacher in ...
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The architects of the biggest set of American tariffs of the last century were two Republicans — Utah Senator Reed Smoot and Rep. Willis Hawley. The Tariff Act of 1930, which created what’s ...