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Sunday, January 29, 2017

History Lesson: Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and the Great Depression

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Santayana

A timely piece from The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/smoot-hawley-tariffs-protectionism-donald-trump

Related:
The great irony of the Mexico tariff is that Americans would pay for it too by Robert Lawrence
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-great-irony-mexico-tariff-american-consumers-pay/

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