The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, signed into law in 1930, was a U.S. legislative measure that raised tariffs on over 20,00 ...

The Trump administration just unveiled the toughest tariffs since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which was repealed ...

The CBOE Volatility Index has spiked more than 80% since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” ...

Until Donald Trump, no president has been so ignorant of the lessons of history, so incompetent in implementing his own ideas ...

The film is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” a 1986 coming-of-age comedy that stars Matthew Broderick as an impish student who ...

"Ferris Bueller is strikingly more instructive than 99.99% of political commentators on tariffs," wrote one economics ...

In March 2025, social media is revisiting the Smoot-Hawley Tariff lesson from 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' as Trump's tariffs ...

Tariffs aim to insulate certain sectors from foreign competition. But evidence shows they often end up losing U.S. jobs.

Since this article was published, Donald Trump announced that tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods covered by the North ...

Donald Trump’s latest tariffs imposed on Canada, China and Mexico have been mocked as a famous Ferris Bueller's Day Off clip ...

In the 75-second “Ferris Bueller” clip, students sit, zombified, as a teacher attempts to engage them in dialogue on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, a topic whose very name sparked titters in cinema ...