Tariffs are direct economic interventions, essentially taxing consumers by imposing taxes on imported products. Click here to ...

Those tariffs are widely credited with sinking the United States deeper into the Great Depression. And although global trade ...

The president’s plan for reciprocal tariffs sounds good in theory. But there was a reason the United States abandoned the ...

Food prices have already been climbing, and Trump’s tariffs could push them even higher. Increased import costs will make everything from fresh produce to packaged goods more expensive. Without a ...

Could some energy companies actually benefit from higher U.S. tariffs on oil and gas? We asked Seeking Alpha analysts Laura Starks and Long Player their thoughts on the topic.

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

The magnitude and scale of the proposed tariffs hark back to the US Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act enacted in 1930. For example, Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman told Bloomberg that“we're really ...

About 95 years ago, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act aimed to protect American industries by imposing record tariffs on imported goods. Despite warnings from economists, President Herbert Hoover plowed ...

It seems few people today know about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. At that time, one year into the Great Depression, the economies of Canada and the United States were in the dumps and ...

President Trump is threatening to levy taxes on imports to match those other countries charge on U.S. exports.

The magnitude and scale of the proposed tariffs hark back to the US Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act enacted in 1930. For example, Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman told Bloomberg that “we’re ...