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A Case Study: Why 'Buy American' Will Make You Poorer: Trade barriers didn't exactly cause the Great Depression, but they probably helped prolong it. Here's a lesson from history on why you want free trade, even if you think you don't. ...; Tags: U.S., Tariff, MoneyWatch, Consequences Smoot-Hawley, Free Trade, Finance, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Trade Barriers, Great Depression, Reed Smoot, Willis Hawley, Herbert Hoover, Cait Murphy; Articles 2009-04-15
How to Make the Financial Crisis Worse: Trade barriers. "Buy American" rules. Anti-immigrant hysteria. The protectionist fever that helped make the Depression Great shows sign of reemerging here and now. Do bad times bring out countries' inner protectionists? Yes, and there are alarming signs that it could be happening again. "This has happened in the past,"...; Tags: Financial, Crisis, MoneyWatch, Government, Construction, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Protectionism, Nativism, Smoot-Hawley Act, Global Trade, Buy American, NAFTA, Visas, Immigration, H-1B Visas, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Trade Barriers, Great Depression, Jagdish Bhagwati, Free Trade; Articles 2009-04-15