Following World War II, the U.S. decisively shifted away from tariffs. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was widely blamed for deepening the Great Depression and contributing to the international conflicts ...

When crisis appeared during the Panic of 1819, a collapse in cotton prices, a tightening of credit, widespread foreclosures and rising unemployment followed. In response, Clay and his allies ...

Following World War II, the US decisively shifted away from tariffs. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was widely blamed for ...

Some of these will be abandoned altogether (like the Western ghost towns constructed in the boom of 1816–1818 and deserted during the Panic of 1819); others will be shifted to other uses.” The Chinese ...

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer Whether by flood, drought, disease, blight, war or political policy, famine stalks countries ...