Trevor Tombe: There’s a lot we can learn from Canada’s last trade-war election

Trevor Tombe: There’s a lot we can learn from Canada’s last trade-war election

The 1930 election also centered around a trade war with the U.S. Here's what happened

Their increase then contributed to the global economic crisis; now Donald Trump wants to try again

Nuremberg - Now he has done it: Donald Trump announced on the "Day of Liberation" staggered tariffs for almost all states. Economic historians remind us of 1930: The US took similar steps - with devastating consequences.

På vei tilbake til 1930-tallet

Verden har ikke sett maken til tollregime siden 1930-tallet. Reiste Trump lenger tilbake i tid enn han hadde planer om?

Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs is not new. In the 1980s, when he cultivated his facet as a real estate tycoon with his donjuán profile in heart magazines, he found a way to get into the country’s political conversation with his criticisms of the economic strength of Japan, West Germany or South Korea. I have a lot of faith in tariffs, he said in an interview in 1988. America is being swindled. We are a debtor nation, we need taxes and tar…