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How Calvin Coolidge’s tariffs started the Great Depression and WWII | Opinion
Economists and business leaders desperately tried to get the stubborn president and Congressional leaders to see reason, to ...
The Perils of Jettisoning the World Franklin Roosevelt Created
P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...
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 ...
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...
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102-year-old WWII veteran “Papa Jake” speaks with Southeast Lauderdale students
He zoomed with the junior students and discussed what it was like growing up during the Great Depression, surviving World War ...
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President Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. What history tells us
The Great Depression began with "Black Tuesday" on ... The economy wouldn't begin its recovery until the outbreak of World War II increased demand for factory production in 1939.
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Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday ... The economy wouldn’t begin its recovery until the outbreak of World War II increased demand for factory production in 1939.