President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the last ...

McKinley's tariff triggered retaliation from other nations. Prices rose, particularly for middle- and lower-income Americans, ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

Harrison contributed to the collapse of the nation’s economy by accepting the agenda of the “Billion Dollar Congress” of 1890, which produced controversial legislation on monetary policy and tariff ...

McKinley, who was president between 1897 and 1901, famously authored the highly protectionist Tariff Act of 1890, later named after him, which imposed over 50% tariffs on many imported goods.

History of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods over the decades has been a bumpy road until Free Trade Agreements that started in 1988.

Of course, Trump’s trade policy is so muddled that this observation isn’t very compelling. Economists on the left and right ...