President Donald Trump is either blissfully unaware or simply doesn’t care that the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, ...

The reputation of the U.S. as a stable, trusted trade partner is unraveling as President Donald Trump's tariffs erode the ...

The Constitution makes plain that trade policy is the province of Congress, but Trump hasn’t been reading congressional ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...

Both models of state-directed capitalism misallocate resources and make the nation poorer.

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is what happened.

The story starts before President Herbert Hoover took office in 1929 ... couldn’t have started the Great Depression, since Hoover signed it into law in June of 1930, after the market crash ...

(AP Photo, File) WASHINGTON (AP ... a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs. President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...

Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930 ...