Financial Capture
The Financial Capture capture lane traces 848 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1142–2026
Capture lanecorruptiondemocraticexecutivefinancialintelligencejudiciallaborlegislativemediamilitaryotherregulatory
Status
confirmed
alleged
disputed
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses
3 src Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · Arthur Burns | confirmed | |
| 1967-07-23 | Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline
4 src Detroit Police Department · Michigan National Guard · Insurance Industry · Corporate interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-11-03 | AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign
2 src William J. Baroody Sr. · American Enterprise Institute · Barry Goldwater · Wright Patman · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1944-07-01 | Bretton Woods Conference Establishes Dollar Hegemony Through IMF and World Bank
4 src U.S. Treasury · Harry Dexter White · John Maynard Keynes · International Monetary Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1940-10-08 | Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes
3 src U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1937-05-01 | Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Morgenthau Jr. · Federal Reserve · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-09-08 | Huey Long Assassinated, Ending "Share Our Wealth" Challenge to Both Corporate Power and New Deal Moderation
3 src Huey Long · Carl Weiss · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Share Our Wealth Society · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Business community · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-23 | Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Marriner Eccles · Carter Glass · U.S. Congress · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-08-14 | Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · American Liberty League · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-05-11 | Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Morris Cooke · private utility companies · farmer cooperatives · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1934-11-20 | Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
3 src Smedley Butler · McCormack-Dickstein Committee · Gerald MacGuire · J.P. Morgan interests · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Ferdinand Pecora · Richard Whitney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1934-01-30 | Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Wall Street · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework
3 src Home Owners' Loan Corporation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Real estate appraisers | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-27 | Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Huston Thompson · Federal Trade Commission · Wall Street · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-24 | J.P. Morgan Jr. Testifies, Preferred List and Tax Evasion Exposed
4 src J.P. Morgan Jr. · J.P. Morgan and Company · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-23 | Pecora Commission Exposes Albert Wiggin's Short Selling of Chase Bank Stock
3 src Albert H. Wiggin · Chase National Bank · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | confirmed | |
| 1933-05-18 | Tennessee Valley Authority Created as Public Power Alternative to Private Utility Monopolies
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · George Norris · U.S. Congress · Tennessee Valley Authority · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1933-03-31 | Civilian Conservation Corps Created as First Federal Youth Employment Program
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Robert Fechner · U.S. Army · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1933-03-09 | Emergency Banking Act Passes in Eight Hours to Stabilize Collapsing Banking System
3 src 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
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Banking industry · Federal Reserve · American depositors | confirmed | |
| 1933-02-21 | Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace
4 src Charles E. Mitchell · National City Bank · National City Company · Ferdinand Pecora · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-07-28 | War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion
3 src Bernard Baruch · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department · Navy Department | confirmed | |
| 1914-08-01 | JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit
4 src JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · French government · Thomas Lamont · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1913-12-23 | Federal Reserve Act Creates Central Banking System: Wilson Signs Compromise Between Private Bank Control and Government Oversight
3 src President Woodrow Wilson · Carter Glass · Robert Latham Owen · JP Morgan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1913-10-03 | Underwood Tariff Slashes Corporate Protection, Establishes Modern Income Tax After 16th Amendment
4 src President Woodrow Wilson · Oscar Underwood · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1913-04-01 | JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress
4 src JP Morgan · Pujo Committee · Samuel Untermyer · House of Morgan | confirmed | |
| 1912-05-16 | Pujo Committee Hearings Begin: Money Trust Investigation Exposes JP Morgan Control of $22 Billion Through 341 Interlocking Directorships
4 src Arsène Pujo · Samuel Untermyer · JP Morgan · George F. Baker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1912-01-12 | Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise
3 src Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Joseph Ettor · Arturo Giovannitti · American Woolen Company | confirmed | |
| 1911-01-16 | Aldrich Plan for Banking Reform Submitted: Secret Jekyll Island Meeting Proposes Wall Street-Controlled Central Bank
4 src Nelson Aldrich · JP Morgan interests · Paul Warburg · Frank Vanderlip · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1910-06-18 | Mann-Elkins Act Strengthens Railroad Regulation, Expands ICC Authority to Telecommunications
3 src President William Howard Taft · Stephen Benton Elkins · James Robert Mann · Interstate Commerce Commission | confirmed | |
| 1909-08-05 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party
4 src President William Howard Taft · Nelson Aldrich · Progressive Republicans · Old Guard Republicans | confirmed | |
| 1903-10-29 | Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes
3 src Amalgamated Copper Company · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · F. Augustus Heinze · Judge William Clancy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-10 | Carnegie Sells to J.P. Morgan: U.S. Steel Becomes First Billion-Dollar Corporation
3 src Andrew Carnegie · J.P. Morgan · U.S. Steel Corporation · Carnegie Steel Corporation | confirmed | |
| 1901-03-01 | J.P. Morgan Creates Northern Securities: $400 Million Railroad Monopoly
3 src J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · Edward H. Harriman · Northern Securities Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1893-03-03 | Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence
3 src U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency | confirmed | |
| 1890-01-01 | Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities
3 src Coal Mining Companies · Coal and Iron Police · Pennsylvania Coal Operators | confirmed | |
| 1887-10-27 | Sugar Trust Formation: Henry Havemeyer Consolidates 75% of Sugar Refining
3 src Henry Osborne Havemeyer · Sugar Refineries Company · American Sugar Refining Company | confirmed | |
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians
4 src King Kalakaua · Hawaiian League · Sanford B. Dole · Lorrin Thurston · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1885-07-01 | J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion
3 src J.P. Morgan · New York Central Railroad · Pennsylvania Railroad · Railroad Executives | confirmed | |
| 1878-02-28 | Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage
3 src Richard P. Bland · William B. Allison · Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1877-06-21 | Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration
4 src Pinkerton Detective Agency · Franklin B. Gowen · Philadelphia & Reading Railroad · James McParlan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1875-05-10 | Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue
4 src Benjamin H. Bristow · Orville Babcock · Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1874-12-07 | Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff
3 src White League · Peter Crosby · Andrew J. Gilmer · Ulysses S. Grant | confirmed | |
| 1873-09-18 | Panic of 1873: Railroad Speculation Triggers Economic Collapse
3 src Jay Cooke & Company · Northern Pacific Railroad · New York Stock Exchange · European Investors | confirmed | |
| 1866-01-01 | Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name
3 src Robert Patton (Alabama Governor) · Alabama State Legislature · Coal Mining Companies · Railroad companies | confirmed | |
| 1142-01-01 | Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Pre-Constitutional Democratic Model
3 src Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Indigenous Leadership · Benjamin Franklin · John Adams · +3 | confirmed |