But, then again, they likely could've avoided the pain if they'd had the sort of 20/ 20 vision only hindsight affords us. As we saw in the previous chapter, the  Industrial Revolution kicked into high gear in the 1920s as homes and factories  plugged into the expanding electrical grid. New cars and trucks traversed a  growing ...
Jun 3, 2016 ... Hillary Clinton. Democratic presidential candidate. "A trade war is something very  different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the  1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful." a foreign policy  speech – Thursday, June 2, 2016. Share; Read More. Embed.
In Latin America as elsewhere, the close of World War II was accompanied by  expectations, only partly fulfilled, of steady economic development and  democratic consolidation. Economies grew, but at a slower rate than in most of  Europe or East Asia, so that Latin America's relative share of world production  and trade ...
Jun 21, 2016 ... It hasn't gotten the same amount of attention as some of his more controversial  comments, but one of the policy proposals Donald Trump has floated ... about  tariffs is to compel other nations to lower trade barriers, so I suppose there's some  small possibility that we might get a good outcome," Mitchell said.
Jun 16, 2014 ... Eighty four years ago on this day President Hoover signed the now-infamous  Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which substantially raised U.S. tariffs on some 890  products. Other countries retaliated and world trade shrank enormously; by the  end of 1934 world trade had plummeted some 66 percent from the 1929 ...
A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful.