With sweeping tariffs that have sent global markets into a tailspin, President Trump argued that the U.S. was founded on steep import taxes on goods from abroad.

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Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the causes of the Great Depression.

For those who lived through the Great Depression, the strangeness of it was hard to convey. The nation had suffered no great natural disaster. The farmers were still farming, and the factories ...

We’re now making comparisons to the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has tumbled 9.1% in the first three weeks of April, the 129-year-old index’s worst performance for any ...

While the Great Depression was a catastrophe beyond anyone's personal control, people made what, in hindsight, we see were mistakes. Here are some to know of.

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Doubtless, the tariffs made a bad situation worse, but they were not a leading contributor to the Great Depression. We need a similar reality check on magnitudes today.