Here’s how present events are mirroring a key point in U.S. history that led to a trade war and exacerbated the Great ...

The UK will still be hit even if not directly targeted by Trump's tariff measures.

Like our predecessors in 1930, we oppose the use of tariffs as a general tool for economic policy.

Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot meeting shortly after the signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. (Credit: National Photo Company/Wikimedia Commons/Postmedia files) Fans of the movie Ferris ...

Though Congress holds power over regulating commerce with foreign nations, it has incrementally delegated significant ...

But the pause is only for a month, and a 10 percent tariff that Trump announced on Chinese imports, on top of existing ...

Tariffs are pure Trump: unconventional, daring, unafraid of challenging established relationships and ways of conducting business and diplomacy, contemptuous of history and, in this case, even geograp ...

For example, Congress passed a sweeping range of tariff hikes, some as high as 60%, after the stock market crash of 1929 under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to protect the farming industry.

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune There are many memorable scenes from the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. One ...

Senator Ron Johnson (Q-Moscow) is not very happy with The Orange Felon playing tariff chicken with our neighbors and allies: ...

Everyone thought the US had learned its lesson. Washington’s Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 sank free trade and triggered The Great Depression. Yet Trump appears to be pressing on. Happily ...