Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) : Planet Money

(Note: This episode originally ran in 2018.) The Smoot-Hawley Tariffs were a debacle that helped plunge America into the Great Depression. What can we learn from them? Today on the show, we tell the nearly 100-year-old story of Smoot and Hawley, that explains why Congress decided to delegate tariff ...

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