WASHINGTON — As lawmakers, investors and economists alike weigh the future impact of President Donald Trump’s expansive tariff plan, many are looking back nearly a century to the last time the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few economists can find good things to say about the infamous 1930s tariffs. (Kayla Bartkowski—Getty Images) It's Smoot-Hawley all ...

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 American farmers and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As experts sound the alarm that risk of a U.S. recession is rising, a former Federal Reserve official is comparing the fallout ...

The year is 1958. After dinner on an October evening at the fraternity house of Lambda Chi Alpha on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the pledge master is assigning young ...

It's Smoot-Hawley all over again! At least by this reporter's calculations, the sweeping tariff regime that President Trump unveiled following the market close on April 2 literally lifts America's ...

WASHINGTON — 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 American farmers ...