Tag: Trump Tariffs 2025

NYSE 1869; Trump Tariffs 2025

April 2025: Snorts of Concern from The Bull of Wall Street

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

There was no dire crisis on Inauguration Day 2025 – other than the second presidency of an insurrectionist. That was and is the crisis we now face blended with an existential crisis for survival by a dark wizard from a far away land. The following post attempts to sort out some of the

Eclipses, the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs – and Trump

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Of interest may be today’s MSN report Trump has ‘botched’ his whole tariff plan with a slip of the tongue.
But has he?
Well, as you know, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 failed to improve the dire economic situation in the US after the "Black Tuesday" Crash of October 29, 1929; notably, the tariffs did not "protect" US farmers and other workers,