They’ll need to act soon. US President Donald Trump, meanwhile, ought to watch a clip from the Hollywood film ‘Ferris Bueller ...

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks at the Economic Club of Chicago Wednesday on a variety of topics, ...

Smoot Hawley Tariff act was mentioned as a beacon of hope for Americans by Donald Trump, history show's the law's history has ...

Tariff critics have shared on social media a November 1988 video clip of President Ronald Reagan calling Smoot-Hawley "a ...

A Dave Chappelle joke and a clip from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" have also been making the rounds. President Donald Trump's trade tariffs have put the internet in a frenzy — and people are ...

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The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930, maybe most familiar due to its inclusion in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” was enacted by Republican President Herbert Hoover at the start of the ...

KHALID: Tariffs are all part of President Trump's plan to divorce the United States from the global economy and return to a system of self-reliance. Take a listen to the president, in his own words, ...

That was the lesson of the 1930s. And you might remember the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," when Ben Stein tried to teach that lesson to a bunch of bored high school students. (SOUNDBITE OF ...