In the early 1870s the struggling Bethlehem Iron Company- later Steel- was attempting to make the technological transition ...

The 1930 tariff bill hurt exporters and provoked other countries to enact their own tariffs as the U.S. economy grappled with ...

and Trump’s take on what sparked the Great Depression — and Hoover-era Washington’s response to it — don’t reflect what actually happened. Gary Richardson, an economics professor at the University of ...

BITTER PILL — Not long after the Wall Street crash of 1929, and before the most damaging effects of a global trade war ...

As a result, comparisons with the Great Depression-era Smoot-Hawley Act have ... Act of 1930 was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover after the 1929 stock market crash despite over a ...

since the 1929 stock market crash that marked the onset of the Great Depression. The bleeding continued Monday. Shortly after 10am, the S&P 500 was down 2.3%, paring losses of 4% that saw it join ...

with James Austin Johnson's take on the president predicting that his plan would "Make America Great Depression Again." The sketch served as a showcase for Johnson's discursive and oddly inflected ...

A rough week on Wall Street did not go unnoticed across town at 30 Rock on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, with the show giving an "encore presentation" of President Donald Trump's ...

"Make America Great Depression Again. It’ll be better than great, it’ll be a fantastic, unbelievable depression." The cold-open sketch kicked off with Trump brushing off recent market turmoil ...

“We’re going to do MAGDA. Make America Great Depression Again. You know what? It’ll be gr — it’ll be better than great. It’ll be a fantastic, unbelievable Depression, the likes of ...

“It will be better than great. It will be a fantastic depression, the likes of which we’re never seen before,” he argued. “You know, this depression is going to be so great, we’ll be the ...