The Huntsville Item7d
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Reply to cartoon: Gun harm or tariffs
The trope "A gun is more likely to cause you harm than to provide you protection" is wrong. It is not true for a person ...
Seeking Alpha5d
When Tariffs Were Used As A Weapon, This Was The Price
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, aimed at protecting U.S. industries, worsened the Great Depression due to retaliatory trade measures. The current economic context differs, and Trump-era ...
Standard-Examiner6d
Letter: There could be some pain with tariffs
The Smoot-Hawley tariffs raised prices on over 20,000 imported goods during the Great Depression. This Act promoted vindictive tariffs by other countries. China has already started with ...
Marketplace8d
What we can learn from a past tariff tiff
Ever heard of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930? Anyone? Those tariffs are widely credited with sinking the United States deeper into the Great Depression. And although global trade looks ...
Yahoo Finance12d
The US tried high tariffs and ‘America first’ policies in the 1930s. Trump should note what happened next
The magnitude and scale of the proposed tariffs hark back to the US Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act enacted in 1930. For example, Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman told Bloomberg that “we’re really ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia14d
What the ‘mother of all trade wars' can teach us about U.S. tariffs, according to economists
Something similar happened in 1930 after passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff ... to an earlier episode in U.S. history — the Tariff Act of 1930 — which triggered an all-out trade war and ...
The Hill8d
Trump’s tariffs wars and aid shutdowns are foolish and immoral
About 95 years ago, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act aimed to protect American industries by imposing record tariffs on imported goods. Despite warnings from economists, President Herbert Hoover plowed ...