Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed ...

The Smoot-Hawley tariffs were meant to protect farmers, but grew owing to congressional “logrolling”, as representatives ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is blamed for deepening the Great Depression. Don’t tell that to the Trump administration ...

Donald Trump’s tariff agenda is a near-repeat of America’s trade agenda of the 1930s. That did not end well for anyone.

The federal government under President Herbert Hoover was criticized for a lack of sweeping reforms early in the economic ...

There are also fears that the tariffs could trigger an economic downturn reminiscent of the Great Depression nearly a century ago. The Great Depression was a catastrophic economic downturn that ...