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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 ...
Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
The Tariff Act of 1890 raised taxes to 49.5% on 1,500-plus items. Championing the move was the “Napoleon of Protectionism,” ...
The Perils of Upending the World Franklin Roosevelt Created
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Credit - Bettmann Archive—. P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has ...
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Trade, Tariffs, the Depression
Nothing in recent history has so strikingly emphasized the need for international coöperation in the economic field as the ...
Opinion
Tariffs and trade wars: here’s what Trump is failing to learn from the Great Depression
From the Smoot-Hawley Act to Trump’s current trade war, economic history clearly demonstrates that protectionism is not only ineffective, but counterproductive. In a world where value chains are ...
York County woman's secret to living to 100: 'don't worry' and 'keep on living.'
Mary Strausbaugh, who turns 100 April 12, has seen and been through a lot. 'No matter what happens,' she says, 'you keep on ...
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This key American business sector has a massive trade surplus with the rest of the world. Its jobs are at risk in a trade war
The service sector employed 57% of private sector non-farm workers in 1939, in the midst of the Great Depression ... % of private sector jobs during World War II, but that has been falling ...