In their coverage, the media have contrasted Trump's hawkish trade policy with the free trade eloquence employed by former ...

Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Combined with many other policy mistakes, that protectionist law led to a ...

Downtown’s City of Presidents Display, home to 42 different statues, will soon be getting it’s latest edition. On Wednesday, Visit Rapid City, the local tourist organization for Rapid City, posted on ...

Inflation remains stubbornly close to the federal reserve’s benchmark of 2%, the U.S. dollar is weakening, and the impact of ...

On the anniversary of FDR’s death, Boston examines the legacy of the New Deal and the expanded role of government in American ...

The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, a Depression-era tariff signed into law by then-President Herbert Hoover ... video clip of Republican President Ronald Reagan calling Smoot-Hawley "a disaster ...

Stagflation is a political killer, particularly for a president whose election victory depended so heavily on the economy.

Donald Trump has previously claimed to have coined a well-known phrase, however, historians aren't so sure.

Bush at first rejected Ronald Reagan’s acceptance of “supply ... down and then risk the fate of becoming a 21st-century Herbert Hoover. One bright spot: The Senate has passed a resolution ...

Roughly 19 minutes into his speech, Trump was handed a rectangular board with a list of countries and regions and the tariffs they charged on America. The reciprocal tariffs US would charge henceforth ...

In the runup to the 1976 presidential election, the fallout from the Watergate scandal and Ronald Reagan’s primary ... associated Republicans with Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression ...