The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is blamed for deepening the Great Depression. Don’t tell that to the Trump administration, which just unveiled the toughest tariffs in almost a century. Investors ...

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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... President Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and ...

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking. 592 pages. $35. In March 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed in his inaugural ...

President Trump's campaign of import tariffs has sparked fresh interest in an iconic scene from a great John Hughes film set in 1980s Chicago. The film is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” a 1986 ...

The Great Depression lasted a decade, but its effects changed a generation forever. And for whatever reason, some of the most popular foods from the era are surging in popularity again.