The Smoot-Hawley Tariff is widely seen by economists and historians as the leading event of the Great Depression. The ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...

In the spring of 1930, more than 1,000 economists across the United States wrote a letter urging President Herbert Hoover to ...

BITTER PILL — Not long after the Wall Street crash of 1929, and before the most damaging effects of a global trade war ...

As a result, comparisons with the Great Depression-era Smoot-Hawley Act have ... Act of 1930 was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover after the 1929 stock market crash despite over a ...

since the 1929 stock market crash that marked the onset of the Great Depression. The bleeding continued Monday. Shortly after 10am, the S&P 500 was down 2.3%, paring losses of 4% that saw it join ...

with James Austin Johnson's take on the president predicting that his plan would "Make America Great Depression Again." The sketch served as a showcase for Johnson's discursive and oddly inflected ...

A rough week on Wall Street did not go unnoticed across town at 30 Rock on "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, with the show giving an "encore presentation" of President Donald Trump's ...

"Make America Great Depression Again. It’ll be better than great, it’ll be a fantastic, unbelievable depression." The cold-open sketch kicked off with Trump brushing off recent market turmoil ...

“We’re going to do MAGDA. Make America Great Depression Again. You know what? It’ll be gr — it’ll be better than great. It’ll be a fantastic, unbelievable Depression, the likes of ...