Trump points to Great Depression to justify tariffs, but they’re widely seen as intensifying bad times - President says 1929 ...

Major market sell-offs typically occur about once every five to 10 years, according to a study, but they come at various ...

Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.

The Great Depression began with “Black Tuesday” on Oct. 29, 1929, when a panic selloff triggered a stock market collapse, wiping out thousands of investors who had borrowed heavily.