"The Smoot-Hawley tariff ignited an international trade war and helped sink our country into the Great Depression," then-president Ronald Reagan said during a radio address in 1986. The measure ...
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 kneecapped America's ability to escape the Great Depression, and today's trade wars look ...
But economic, political and technological changes have left Canada with few ways to handle trade restrictions now.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, during the Great Depression, shaped how U.S. industries developed, and not only for the ...
The impact of tariffs on the Great Depression remains a cautionary tale about the dangers of economic protectionism during times of financial distress. Among the most infamous examples is the ...
Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. Mark Benedict Barry Library of Congress Protectionism doesn’t work ...
A mannerism is stymying economic discussion about the President Trump tariffs, as it has since the first presidential term. This is the accusation among economic purists that it is craven and ...
Kurt Bauer, president and chief executive officer of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, notes that while WMC’s members may ...
It’s important to remember the Canadian economy did not collapse before free trade, despite being circumvallated by tariff ...