When Pres. Donald Trump took office in 2017, he promised free, fair, and reciprocal trade, including deals to open markets to ...

Tariffs have been a trade tool for hundreds of years, shaping history as they’re implemented and repealed.  Below, we’ll go ...

But McKinley made the money and he was truly the tariff king. Professor Rauchway sees a historical downside to this budding bromance. The tariff law of 1890, called the “McKinley tariff ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House means that one of his signature issues will soon return to the center of ...

and he regularly praises a man he calls "the tariff king," 25th President William McKinley. "[McKinley's] language was really ...

“Our country was the richest, relatively, in the 1880s and 1890s,” Trump said. He called McKinley “the Tariff King” who “spoke beautifully of tariffs,” and summarized his policy. “We will not allow ...

“He thinks that the McKinley tariff led to a boom, but the cautionary tale is that it was followed by the financial panic of ...

In a superficial way, the president most emulated by Donald Trump is Grover Cleveland insofar as Cleveland is the only other ...

WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump vowed to immediately impose 25% tariffs on all goods from Mexico as punishment if the country doesn’t help curb the flow of immigration into the U.S., should ...

much as McKinley’s tariffs did not. The core strengths of the U.S. remained intact, both during the tariff period and when tariffs were lowered. This raises a broader question about how much any ...