History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes. Mark Twain probably never said that, but it remains one of the ...

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 ...

In the early days of the Great ... Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and ...