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

Nothing in recent history has so strikingly emphasized the need for international coöperation in the economic field as the business depression which now for over two years has weighed down upon the ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs could cause planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to drop temporarily, but ...

Finally, the drastic Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act contributed largely to the Great Depression of the 1930s, though some economic historians have emphasized the U.S. money supply, the boom-bust cycle in ...

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement," Hoover said in December 1930. "Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic ...

“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement,” Hoover said in December 1930. “Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the ...