Fox Photos/Getty Images President Trump’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global ...

Economics is a proud discipline. It has long seen itself as the premier social science and with the major natural sciences part of the core of the intellectual apparatus of modern society. It ...

Washington — 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 ...

• The claim uses 1930 income figures that captured only the richest 10% or so of Americans, which skews the comparison with typical incomes from the entire population today. • One federal statistic ...

Economic depressions are severe recessions lasting many years with over 10% annual GDP decline. Depressions cause global impacts like massive unemployment and business failures. The US experienced one ...

Several factors led to the Great Depression, one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. NPR interviewed economists who discussed the... President Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and ...