Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that increased ...

While the U.S. dollar is by far the most-used currency in global business, members of the so-called BRIC alliance say they are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system.

A top Federal Reserve official said Monday that he is leaning toward supporting an interest rate cut when the Fed meets in ...

In political, diplomatic and military circles, the talk is of a dysfunctional superpower, isolationist abroad and polarised ...