Trump, William McKinley and tariff
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But the tariff war with Mexico and Canada has destroyed that optimism and wiped out the increase in the value of American equities that had accrued since November.
From The Wall Street Journal
US President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on goods from countries across the world, on what he called "Liberation Day".
From BBC
"The tariff plan announced by the U.S. administration was significant, and in its current form, it clearly isn't good news for (the) global economy, stability and trade," Maersk said in a written com...
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COLUMN. To justify his trade war, Donald Trump has referred to former president William McKinley, a protectionist who was in office at the turn of the 20th century. However, what is less known is that McKinley ended up regretting his aggressive trade policy,
William McKinley's combination of high tariffs and overseas imperialism was disastrous — but not to Donald Trump
President Trump’s determination to impersonate William McKinley and return America to the turn of the last century conveniently writes women and people of color out of public life and celebrates the extreme inequality of the robber baron era.
The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be the Republican’s new role model, believes that, his account of the 25th pre
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President William McKinley is having his biggest moment since 1928, when his face was printed on the $500 bill. For the last few decades, only a smattering of quirky historians and cult devotees have paid much attention to him.
W hen President Donald Trump pulled William McKinley from the outer reaches of American history and hailed his presidency as a model for today’s U.S. leadership, he harked back to the far ...
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