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Trump's tariffs abandon what made America wealthy in favor of a lie about payback | Opinion
Trump is operating under the illusion that other nations are becoming wealthy on the backs of American trade deficits. It's a ...
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Trump Says Tariffs Could Have Stopped the Great Depression
Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the United States entered the Great Depression as a result of turning its back on the ...
Trump points to the Depression to justify tariffs, but they’re widely seen as intensifying downturn
Depression ‘would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy,’ a statement most experts disasgree with ...
The last time the US raised tariffs this much it made the Great Depression way worse
Trump's tariff hike mirrors the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which exacerbated the Great Depression and led to a major shift ...
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How Trump’s Tariff War Could Strengthen America in the Long Run
By employing protectionist measures now, before the next great war begins, America can shield its eviscerated manufacturing ...
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A National Public Housing Museum opens
The National Public Housing Museum is now open in Chicago. Installations, exhibits and stories about public housing's ...
Trump claims the Great Depression would never have happened if US levied tariffs
US President Donald Trump claimed that the Great Depression that hit America in 1930 would have never happened if the country ...
Trump tariffs conjure specter of Smoot-Hawley Act, a Depression-era blunder
In the spring of 1930, more than 1,000 economists across the United States wrote a letter urging President Herbert Hoover to ...
Republican Warns Tariffs Spurred 'Worst Depression We've Ever Had'
Representative Don Bacon is expected to introduce a companion bill from Senators Grassley and Cantwell in an effort to return tariff authority to Congress.