Nothing in recent history has so strikingly emphasized the need for international coöperation in the economic field as the ...

Major market sell-offs typically occur about once every five to 10 years, according to a study, but they come at various ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...

Smoot Hawley Tariff act was mentioned as a beacon of hope for Americans by Donald Trump, history show's the law's history has ...

Trump's tariff hike mirrors the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which exacerbated the Great Depression and led to a major shift ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff collapsed global trade and helped transform the nascent recession into a decadelong global depression ...

From the Smoot-Hawley Act to Trump’s current trade war, economic history clearly demonstrates that protectionism is not only ineffective, but counterproductive. In a world where value chains are ...

Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the United States entered the Great Depression as a result of turning its back on the ...

"America's history of high tariffs actually continued well after 1913, however, and Trump's take on what sparked the Great Depression — and Hoover-era Washington's response to it — don't ...

Trump's tariffs are 'every bit as high' as the Great Depression-era Smoot-Hawley Tariff widely blamed for worsening the ...