The Smoot-Hawley tariffs didn’t save agriculture. Trump’s tariffs probably won’t save manufacturing.

A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

Trump's tariff hike mirrors the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which exacerbated the Great Depression and led to a major shift ...

The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted ... Moving away from oil dependen­cy and developing other sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, and technol­ogy can create a more ...

The Great Depression began with "Black Tuesday" on ... Hoover pushed Congress for higher agricultural tariffs. But a chief goal was encouraging farmers to produce new types of crops, and Hoover ...

American mistakes in the wake of the Wall Street Crash such as protectionist measures are ‘still fresh today’, Xie Feng warns.