Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that increased tariffs for a broad swathe of imported goods. In response, several ...

How did the Smoot-Hawley Act come to be? Robert Bothwell, an emeritus professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto, said the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was just another example of the ...

And he frequently begins by talking about the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930. (Prior analysis: Tax Notes, Dec. 19, 2016, p. 1398.) Trump critics routinely invoke Smoot-Hawley as an object ...

Among the most infamous examples is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which exacerbated an already dire economic situation. Implemented to protect American farmers and manufacturers, the tariff ...

The key difference is that America now has excessively high consumption, while it had low consumption and excess savings when the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed in 1930. "Done under current ...

(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 ...

Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot meeting shortly after the signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. (Credit: National Photo Company/Wikimedia Commons/Postmedia files) Fans of the movie Ferris ...