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Did the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Cause the Great Depression?

Bill Krist | 06/16/2014

Eighty four years ago on this day President Hoover signed the now-infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which substantially raised U.S. tariffs on some 890 products. Other countries retaliated and world trade…

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