| 2026-03-11 | Lead Prosecutor in DOJ Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell Replaced U.S. Department of Justice · Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · +1 |
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| 2026-01-28 | Federal Reserve Refuses to Comply with DOJ Grand Jury Subpoenas Against Powell Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Department of Justice · Jeanine Pirro · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Trump v. Cook, Justices Skeptical of Presidential Power to Fire Federal Reserve Governors Donald Trump · Lisa Cook · U.S. Supreme Court · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-01-10 | DOJ Serves Fed Chair Powell with Grand Jury Subpoena in Unprecedented Criminal Investigation Jerome Powell · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Bill Pulte · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-03 | Treasury Secretary Proposes White House Veto Power Over Federal Reserve Regional Bank Presidents Scott Bessent · Department of the Treasury · Federal Reserve · Jerome Powell · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-09-15 | Trump Installs Economic Adviser on Federal Reserve Board in Unprecedented Dual Role Stephen Miran · Donald Trump · Federal Reserve · Council of Economic Advisers | | reported |
| 2025-09-04 | DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation Into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for Alleged Mortgage Fraud Department of Justice · Lisa Cook · Pam Bondi · Bill Pulte · +3 |
| reported |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Attempts First-Ever Firing of Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa Cook Sues Donald Trump · Lisa Cook · Bill Pulte · Federal Reserve | | confirmed |
| 2025-08-15 | FHFA Director Pulte Uses Mortgage Data to Target Fed Governor Lisa Cook William Pulte · Lisa Cook · Federal Reserve · fhfa · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Signs Executive Order Prohibiting 'Debanking' Based on Political Views Donald Trump · White House · Federal Reserve · FDIC · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-08-01 | Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler Resigns Early, Opening Seat for Trump Appointee Adriana Kugler · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell | | confirmed |
| 2025-04-03 | Liberation Day Market Crash: S&P 500 Drops 10.5% in Two Days, $6.6 Trillion Wiped Out in Largest Two-Day Loss in History Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Federal Reserve · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2023-03-10 | Silicon Valley Bank Collapses in $212 Billion Bank Run, Third-Largest U.S. Bank Failure Caused by Regulatory Rollback Silicon Valley Bank · Greg Becker · FDIC · Federal Reserve · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-07-07 | Deutsche Bank fined $150 million for processing Epstein transactions including payments to co-conspirators Deutsche Bank · Jeffrey Epstein · New York Department of Financial Services · Federal Reserve · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2019-06-25 | U.S. Student Debt Surpasses $1.6 Trillion - 107% Increase in a Decade Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |
| 2018-05-24 | Trump Signs Dodd-Frank Rollback Raising 'Systemically Important' Bank Threshold from $50B to $250B After Industry Lobbying Blitz Donald Trump · Greg Becker · Silicon Valley Bank · Mike Crapo · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-02-02 | Federal Reserve Imposes Unprecedented Asset Cap on Wells Fargo Federal Reserve · Janet Yellen · Wells Fargo Board |
| confirmed |
| 2015-04-08 | Russian Agents Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin Attend NRA Annual Meeting, Meet Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · Stanley Fischer · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-16 | Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-01 | Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 2006-09-29 | Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +8 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-07-01 | Housing Bubble Peaks as Predatory Subprime Lending Reaches Maximum, Setting Stage for Collapse Countrywide Financial · New Century Financial · Washington Mutual · Ameriquest · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2006-06-01 | Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders |
| confirmed |
| 1998-12-31 | Asian Financial Crisis: Comprehensive Economic Transformation International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · Multinational Corporations · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-09-30 | NationsBank-BankAmerica $62 Billion Merger Creates First Coast-to-Coast National Bank NationsBank · BankAmerica · Federal Reserve · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-09-01 | Federal Reserve Grants Citigroup Temporary Waiver for Glass-Steagall Violation Federal Reserve · Alan Greenspan · Citicorp · Travelers Group · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-06-15 | Corporate Exploitation of Asian Financial Crisis Structural Adjustment Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-05-07 | Coordinated Regulatory Opposition Suppresses CFTC Derivatives Oversight Inquiry Brooksley Born · Alan Greenspan · Robert Rubin · Arthur Levitt · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Wage Stagnation Era Begins: Productivity-Pay Gap Opens as Union Power Collapses American workers · Corporate management · Federal Reserve · Business Roundtable |
| confirmed |
| 1977-10-12 | Community Reinvestment Act Passed to Combat Redlining, Banking Industry Resists President Jimmy Carter · Senator William Proxmire · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-10-28 | Equal Credit Opportunity Act and RESPA Pass After Industry Lobbying Weakens Enforcement U.S. Congress · President Gerald Ford · American Bankers Association · Mortgage Bankers Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-12-01 | Business Roundtable Established as CEO Coordination Body for Corporate Political Power John Connally · Arthur Burns · Reginald Jones · John Harper · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1937-05-01 | Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Morgenthau Jr. · Federal Reserve · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1934-01-30 | Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Wall Street · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1933-03-09 | Emergency Banking Act Passes in Eight Hours to Stabilize Collapsing Banking System Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · William Woodin · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1933-03-06 | FDR Declares National Bank Holiday, Closing All Banks to Stop Collapse of Financial System Franklin D. Roosevelt · Banking industry · Federal Reserve · American depositors |
| confirmed |
| 1931-06-01 | Banking Crisis Accelerates with 2,300 Bank Failures in 1931 as Hoover Resists Federal Intervention Herbert Hoover · Federal Reserve · American bankers · depositors | | confirmed |
| 1929-08-01 | Investment Trust Leverage Pyramids Reach Unsustainable Peak Goldman Sachs · Investment Trusts · Federal Reserve | | confirmed |
| 1928-01-01 | Margin Buying Explosion Enables Rampant Stock Market Speculation Federal Reserve · Goldman Sachs · Investment Trusts | | confirmed |
| 1927-02-25 | McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching Louis Thomas McFadden · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve | | confirmed |
| 1920-06-01 | Farm Crisis Begins as Agricultural Prices Collapse While Debt Remains Andrew Mellon · Federal Reserve · Farm Bureau · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |