As a result, comparisons with the Great Depression-era Smoot-Hawley Act have rung in loud. Business Insider also reported that the dramatic rise in tariffs under the Trump administration marks the ...

Spencer Platt / Getty Images The record-breaking losses have led people on social media to speculate about another Great Depression. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images @frogs4girls has a ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised tariffs and worsened the Great Depression ... manufacturers against imports from Europe, where overproduction after World War I was increasing ...

On Wednesday, Trump stated that the 1930s Great Depression could have been avoided if tariffs on imported goods had continued. "From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United ...

The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness. The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a ...

People stand on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression, as they wait for food on New York’s Lower East Side in 1930. WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression ...

President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while announcing his massive tariff plan to hit trading partners. The president ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect ...