The Smoot-Hawley tarrifs of 1929 were particularly interesting as well. They are credited with exerbating the Great Depression and causing some fairly destructive trade wars. Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley were the co-ceaters of this act (and Herbert Hoover signed them into law). I guess I'll need to read a bit more about them (because what I've read so-far online is from a serious Trump critic). Amity Shlaes is a highly-credentialed economist that has written extensively about that period of history (author of the "Forgotten Man", an in-depth study of the Great Depresson). I'll have to see if I can find her take on it all.

Last edited by Lloyd3; 04/05/25 12:50 PM.