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Source: WSJ

September 19, 2017

Fact Check: Steve Bannon’s Bad History

by Douglas A. Irwin

Immigration and rapid industrialization—not tariffs—made the 19th-century economy great.

Source: NPR

September 11, 2017

Fact Check: Were the 1800s Steve Bannon's Kind of America?

In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, Bannon said, "Economic nationalism is what this country was built on."