Federal law seeks to make communications technology like telephones and the internet, in the words of one older statute, ...

3. Protectionism and Trade Wars: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1930 responded to economic pressures but exacerbated the global recession. Similarly, the Trump administration's trade wars, particularly with ...

A crowd of depositors gather in the rain outside Bank of United States after its failure in 1931 during the Great Depression. Photo by World Telegram staff photographer from the Library of ...

There are also fears that the tariffs could trigger an economic downturn reminiscent of the Great Depression nearly a century ago. The Great Depression was a catastrophic economic downturn that began ...

Since the Great Depression, the United States has suffered 14 official recessions. Here, we break down each one. A recession ...

The United States saw a similar war on unions in the 1920s, when vigilante squads and police battalions suppressed strikes at ...

Often referred to as “the Great Depression,” the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, caused the GDP of both the United States and foreign countries to decline sharply. GDP fell by an ...

Trump triggered a fresh trade disputes with the top three US trading partners when he imposed fresh 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico. If United States Donald Trump doesn't back down ...