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Why are people talking about Smoot-Hawley, the Great Depression-era tariff plan?
Tariff critics have shared on social media a November 1988 video clip of President Ronald Reagan calling Smoot-Hawley "a ...
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different.
President Trump's sweeping tariffs have sent global markets into a tailspin, while he argues that the US was founded on steep ...
What is Smoot-Hawley? The Depression-era act being compared to Trump's tariffs
One expert is comparing the fallout from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the aftermath of a trade policy that deepened ...
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President Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. What history tells us
In the early days of the Great Depression ... farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many ...