The Latest Breaking News from the Great Depression

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 manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs

An Irish Cabinet minister has compared US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime to the circumstances which precipitated the Great Depression.

Those dreading a return to the Smoot Hawley days think this time around could be even worse given the size and scale of Trump's new tariffs.

The internet is mocking President Donald Trump for boasting about his impending tariffs, which experts say will do the opposite of grow the economy.

Donald Trump has declared that the US could have avoided the Great Depression with tariffs.

Ben Stein plays an economics teacher explaining how tariffs exacerbated the Great Depression

In a new book, Dana Frank tells stories of the people who ‘made history happen’ through organizing and mutual aid

Nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process during the Great Depression, reminiscent of what is unfolding today

AI-related shares combine with optimistic pricing in most other market segments to leave the stock market more overvalued than at any point since 2001.

The candidate’s protectionism offsets some otherwise positive tax ideas.

The past decade and a half has seen upheaval across the globe. The 2008 financial crisis and its fallout, the COVID-19 pandemic and major regional conflicts in Sudan, the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere have left residual uncertainty. Added to this is a tense, growing rivalry between the U.S. and…