Tariffs are neither a panacea nor necessarily injurious. Their effectiveness, like that of any economic policy intervention, ...

Today's U.S. economy is much different than the one that was crushed by disastrous tariffs in the 1930s, according to finance ...

Canada is staring down the barrel of another trade war. While trade wars are never good, the pending barrage is particularly ...

With broad new tariffs promised, we look back at the most infamous case of broad tariffs in U.S. history — the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. It did not end well. President-elect Trump has floated the ...

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF") STEIN: (As Economics Teacher) The tariff bill, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, which - anyone? - raised or lowered - raised tariffs. MALONE: But that ...

What can we learn from them? Today on the show, we tell the nearly 100-year-old story of Smoot and Hawley, that explains why Congress decided to delegate tariff power to the executive branch in ...

Throw in a tariff war and we’re courting a recession ... in response to trade hostilities — from the Corn Laws to the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Auto Pact, leaders ...

Fans of the movie, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” will remember the scene. Ben Stein plays a famously boring high school teacher giving a lecture about economics to a room full of teenagers ...

Ben Stein as a tariff-focused economics teacher in the film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." (Paramount Pictures) Fans of the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” will remember the scene. Ben Stein ...

Sources told the Washington Post that preliminary discussions on tariffs have focused on certain sectors deemed key to ...