Did the 25th president really make America "very rich through tariffs"? William McKinley might have told you otherwise.

In the president’s eyes, tariffs might simply be the price other countries should pay for admission to a premium market.

In his inaugural address, the 47th president of the US celebrated his distant predecessor, best known for significantly ...

Those include targeted tariffs aimed at protecting emerging industries, such as the 1890 McKinley tariff's impact on U.S. tinplate manufacturing, and South Korea's process of industrialization.

Their research concludes that “higher tariffs were not associated with higher productivity; if anything, industries with bigger tariff shields saw lower labor productivity.” Protectionists point to ...

If you've been intrigued by President Donald Trump's praise of his long-ago White House predecessor William McKinley and ...