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 ...

America's auto industry is back in the fast lane in a race with China to economic dominance. Imposing tariffs and repealing ...

President Trump says tariffs will force manufacturers to build new factories in the US and hire more American workers, but ...

Something similar happened in 1930 after passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which reduced global trade and exacerbated the Great Depression ... President Herbert Hoover, who had run for the ...

Author Thomas Fellows spoke recently about how reciprocal tariffs were similar to the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 and how they ...

History points to Henry Ford being one of those begging Herbert Hoover to veto the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930. And, in 2025, the car industry is one obvious potential tariff loser. "It's true to ...

The Trump administration has issued ‘America First Trade Policy’, the most damaging trade policy since the Smoot Hawley ...

About 95 years ago, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ... President Herbert Hoover plowed ahead, triggering swift retaliations from major trading partners. U.S. exports plummeted, global trade shrank and ...

More than 1,000 economists protested the bill to then-United States President Herbert Hoover ... of the Great Depression. Robert Bothwell, an emeritus professor of Canadian history at the University ...