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Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different
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Not to mention that Tarrifs are thought to have contributed to the length and global reach of the depression. Tarrifs may not have caused the great depression but they absolutely extended it.
https://fee.org/articles/the-smoot-hawley-tariff-and-the-great-depression/