The Great Depression ... At the beginning of the Depression, President Herbert Hoover largely dismissed the stock market crash as a "passing incident in our national lives." Hoover did not believe ...

How extraordinary? We’re now making comparisons to the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has tumbled 9.1% in the first three weeks of April, the 129-year-old index’s worst ...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised tariffs and worsened the Great Depression. Prior to the Great Depression, Republicans were the pro-tariff party. Tariffs haven't been raised this ...

It’s a pretty bad sign when people start making comparisons to the Great Depression, right? The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that after the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed nearly 1,000 ...

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on nearly every nation and a stricken stock market have inspired 2nd Great Depression memes. On social media platforms like X and Bluesky, users are ...

The stock market isn't doing so hot since Trump announced his whole tariff thing.

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China’s ambassador to the United States Xie Feng has said that the United States should avoid the mistakes from the Great Depression of the 1930s amid the escalating tariff war between the two ...

On Wednesday, Trump stated that the 1930s Great Depression could have been avoided if tariffs on imported goods had continued. "From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United ...