A century ago Friday, on Jan. 25, 1919, nearly 30 countries approved a proposal to create a commission to establish the League of Nations ... but then the Great Depression happens and countries ...

On that date newly independent Ireland applied to join the League of Nations. [ Read the complete ... its formation was a direct response to the Great War. Its goal was to ensure that never ...

If United States Donald Trump doesn't back down from its plans to impose high import tariffs, the global economy might ...

Tariffs have also been associated with causing one of America's darkest moments, The Great Depression ... Tariff Act became ...

Trump is abandoning the tools that made America prosperous for those that helped prolong the Great Depression. There's a reason that the world’s poorest nations are those that employ tariffs.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised tariffs and worsened the Great Depression ... such as not joining the League of Nations," Felix Stossmeister, an expert on trade policy and Ph.D ...