A new report said Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada pose the worst trade shock since the 1930s, with a recession in the ...

History could be repeating itself as the latest wave of tariffs from the Trump administration disrupts global trade, reshapes ...

Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot meeting shortly after the signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. (Credit: National Photo Company/Wikimedia Commons/Postmedia files) Fans of the movie Ferris ...

Like our predecessors in 1930, we oppose the use of tariffs as a general tool for economic policy.

According to Green, history has shown that protectionist policies seldom yield the expected benefits. The Smoot-Hawley tariffs amplified the Great Depression by stifling global trade, and the current ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune There are many memorable scenes from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. One ...

Public policy debates on issues such as citizenship, tariffs and education can be enriched by considering the historical ...

And during the Great Depression, the Hawley-Smoot tariff boosted the average U.S. import tax to 59 per cent. For a century and a half, from the early 1800s until the late 1940s, U.S. tariffs were ...

Tariffs are pure Trump: unconventional, daring, unafraid of challenging established relationships and ways of conducting business and diplomacy, contemptuous of history and, in this case, even geograp ...

President Trump’s support for high tariffs and disdain for free trade harkens back to a much older policy — the Smoot-Hawley ...

President Donald Trump is set to follow through on one of his major campaign promises: placing new tariffs on Canada, Mexico ...

Among the most infamous examples is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which exacerbated an already dire economic situation. Implemented to protect American farmers and manufacturers, the tariff ...