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What to know about the Smoot-Hawley tariffs and their role in the Great Depression
who led the country nearly a century ago during the onset of the Great Depression. Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that ...
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Think Trump’s tariffs would boost the US economy? History shows they bring disaster | Opinion
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 ...
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Are we doomed to repeat the 1930s?
Herbert Hoover ... to a global depression, political extremism and war. Simon Wilson looks at what Donald Trump should learn from the mistakes of the 1930s. Under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ...
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Great Depression
WASHINGTON, June 17, 1930 (UP) -- President Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley "billion dollar" tariff bill today ... Democrats blame Depression on White House WASHINGTON, April 13, 1932 (UP ...
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Supply-Siders Battle Their Tariff Critics
Wanniski’s 1978 book The Way the World Works went over how the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff occasioned the Great Depression ... collapsing when President Hoover indicated he would sign, as he ...
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LETTER: Tariffs are a mistake
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 ...