The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, signed into law in 1930, was a U.S. legislative measure that raised tariffs on over 20,00 ...

President Trump has suggested that the government eliminate the personal income tax and replace it with tariffs. While some ...

President Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as his exemption of North American trade agreement-protected goods, ...

The stock market is in correction territory, with risks from protectionism reminiscent of the 1920s, potentially leading to a ...

The film is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” a 1986 coming-of-age comedy that stars Matthew Broderick as an impish student who ...

Everyone who had the misfortune to see Trump’s various speeches on inauguration day got to see him explain that the word “tariff’ was the most beautiful word in the dictionary, only to catch himself ...

Trump is taking tariffs far beyond their intended use. While it's worth taking a look at unfair trade, he's riding roughshod ...

"Ferris Bueller is strikingly more instructive than 99.99% of political commentators on tariffs," wrote one economics professor as Donald Trump's controversial tariffs take effect ...

On June 17, 1930, President Hoover signed into law, the “Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.” It was designed to protect American workers and farmers from foreign competition. It raised tariffs on over ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is blamed for deepening the Great Depression. Don’t tell that to the Trump administration, which just unveiled the toughest tariffs in almost a century.