May Day was celebrated for the first time as a labour holiday. Since then, Labour Day has grown into a global event, with ...

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

President Donald Trump began the month of April declaring an all new imposition of tariffs (i.e., taxes placed upon goods ...

Catherine Lucey covers the White House for The Wall Street Journal.

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The last president who used tariffs was the infamous President Herbert ... worsening of the Depression.” And then look at the man who signed it into law. Without a doubt, Hoover is the worst ...