All of this madness will lead to increased famine, disease, suffering and economic instability, while handing geopolitical ...

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

Trump is talking about tariffs on foreign goods on a scale not seen for 90 years, and that did not work well for the US ...

While the White House is claiming Canada's pledge to spend $1.3bn (£1bn) on a border protection plan has given it diplomatic ...

Something similar happened in 1930 after passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which reduced global trade and exacerbated the Great Depression, economists said. A trade war is brewing — and ...

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 ...

President Trump’s tariffs pose a major threat to the global economy and risk a damaging cycle of retaliation. A better form ...

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