With sweeping tariffs that have sent global markets into a tailspin, President Trump argued that the U.S. was founded on ...

When hedge-fund billionaire Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent was nominated last fall by Donald Trump to serve as the nation’s 79th ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ... Working conditions were often poor, but the standard of living climbed for the middle class, which enjoyed innovations like ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ... Working conditions were often poor, but the standard of living climbed for the middle class, which enjoyed innovations like ...

Working conditions were often poor, but the standard of living climbed for the middle class ... “There’s no theater to Herbert Hoover,” said David Hamilton, a history professor at the ...

Prices will go up disproportionately on lower-end versions of goods compared to their higher-end counterparts, meaning lower- and middle-class ... In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the ...

Conditions deteriorated to the point that President Herbert Hoover called the Islands the “effective poorhouse” of the U.S. after visiting in 1931. Congress didn’t confer U.S. citizenship on ...

Tons of tariff talk from the Trump Administration. What can be learned from the history of tariffs in the U.S. going back to ...