The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that Trump’s tariffs would slow growth, not only for the U.S. but globally. The ...

which is widely accepted to have worsened the Great Depression and is now used as cautionary tale by economic historians. “The lesson of the Smoot-Hawley Act is still fresh today,” Xie said.

Poilievre had first come across the book as a fourteen-year-old teenager growing up in Calgary. Out of commission from a ...

History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes—the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ...

Veronique de Rugy compares the economic fallout of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs and Trump-era trade barriers, arguing both ...

Both could turn out to be costly, backward-looking mistakes that undermine the economies they are meant to protect.

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Trump's tariffs promised to bring back a bygone era of manufacturing. If we want prosperity, we must look forward, not ...

In the past 19 years, our country has changed course in a manner that reflects that title song sung by Tony Bennett. It is a love song about a lost ...

Trump's tariffs promised to bring back a bygone era of manufacturing. If we want prosperity, we must look forward, not ...

History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes — the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the Trump-era tariffs of today — offer a striking example.