The Huntsville Item3d
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 ...
The Financial Times25d
Richard Nixon’s third term on trade starts today
To free-traders, the McKinley tariff of 1890, whose eponymous promoter was then in Congress, is almost as notorious as the Smoot-Hawley one ... This 1894 cartoon from Harper’s magazine ...
Financial Post14d
How Trump's threatened tariffs echo a failed American trade policy of the 1930s
But Smoot-Hawley is certainly stirring up some buzz today. For those unfamiliar with ye old Act, Smoot-Hawley was named for Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and ...
NBC Los Angeles9d
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 ...
Yahoo Finance7d
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 ...