Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war is dragging down the global economy, with U.S. markets on track for their worst April since the Great Depression. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports. (The Beat's YouTube playl ...

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that Trump’s tariffs would slow growth, not only for the U.S. but globally. The ...

Stocks are on the rebound Tuesday, bouncing back from another miserable day on Wall Street. But American financial markets ...

American mistakes in the wake of the Wall Street Crash such as protectionist measures are ‘still fresh today’, Xie Feng warns.

From the Smoot-Hawley Act to Trump’s current trade war, economic history clearly demonstrates that protectionism is not only ...

Over the years, East River and West River South Dakota have certainly had their differences. But in the Mid-Twentieth Century ...

People stand on a breadline, early victims of the Great Depression, as they wait for food on New York’s Lower East Side in 1930. WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Great Depression ...

FILE - Thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after some 2,000 jobs were made available for park improvements and repairs, Oct. 9, 1930. (AP ...

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 ...