Capture lane

Financial Capture

The Financial Capture capture lane traces 859 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

859 events From Jan 1, 1142 To Jun 17, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1142–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
1974-07-01William Simon Establishes Petrodollar Recycling System 3 src
Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Treasury · Saudi Arabia
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1974-06-08US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed 3 src
Henry Kissinger · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · United States · +1
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1973-12-29HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion 3 src
Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy
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1973-10-01Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller 3 src
Jimmy Carter
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1973-09-11Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship 3 src
Milton Friedman
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1973-09-01ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council 4 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde
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1973-01-01BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries 4 src
Agha Hasan Abedi
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1972-09-01BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure 4 src
Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America
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1972-03-30Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals 3 src confirmed
1972-03-01Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded 4 src
Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America
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1972-01-01Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates 4 src
Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1
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1971-08-15Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses 3 src
Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · Arthur Burns
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1967-07-23Detroit Riots Accelerate Pre-Existing White Flight and Corporate Urban Disinvestment Pattern Creating Decades of Economic Decline 4 src
Corporate interests
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1964-11-03AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign 2 src
American Enterprise Institute · Barry Goldwater · Internal Revenue Service
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1944-07-01Bretton Woods Conference Establishes Dollar Hegemony Through IMF and World Bank 4 src
U.S. Treasury · International Monetary Fund · World Bank
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1940-10-08Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes 3 src
U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1
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1937-05-01Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Reserve · U.S. Treasury Department
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1935-09-08Huey Long Assassinated, Ending "Share Our Wealth" Challenge to Both Corporate Power and New Deal Moderation 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1935-08-30Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes 4 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Democratic Party
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1935-08-23Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy 2 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve Board
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1935-08-14Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · +1
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1935-05-11Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1934-11-20Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR 3 src
Du Pont family · Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1934-06-06Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets 7 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Ferdinand Pecora
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1934-01-30Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Wall Street · +1
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1933-06-13Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Home Loan Bank Board
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1933-05-27Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation 7 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Wall Street
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1933-05-24J.P. Morgan Jr. Testifies, Preferred List and Tax Evasion Exposed 4 src
Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Calvin Coolidge
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1933-05-23Pecora Commission Exposes Albert Wiggin's Short Selling of Chase Bank Stock 3 src
Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
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1933-05-18Tennessee Valley Authority Created as Public Power Alternative to Private Utility Monopolies 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress
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1933-03-31Civilian Conservation Corps Created as First Federal Youth Employment Program 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · U.S. Army · U.S. Department of Labor
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1933-03-09Emergency Banking Act Passes in Eight Hours to Stabilize Collapsing Banking System 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Banking industry
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1933-03-06FDR Declares National Bank Holiday, Closing All Banks to Stop Collapse of Financial System 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Banking industry · Federal Reserve
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1933-02-21Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace 4 src
National City Bank · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency
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1917-07-28War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion 3 src
Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department
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1914-08-01JP Morgan Becomes Allied War Financier: $3 Billion in Loans and Munitions Contracts, Abandons Neutrality for Profit 4 src
JP Morgan & Co. · British Government · Woodrow Wilson
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1913-12-23Federal Reserve Act Creates Central Banking System: Wilson Signs Compromise Between Private Bank Control and Government Oversight 3 src
Woodrow Wilson · J.P. Morgan
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1913-10-03Underwood Tariff Slashes Corporate Protection, Establishes Modern Income Tax After 16th Amendment 4 src
Woodrow Wilson · Democratic Party
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1913-04-01JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress 4 src
J.P. Morgan
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1912-05-16Pujo Committee Hearings Begin: Money Trust Investigation Exposes JP Morgan Control of $22 Billion Through 341 Interlocking Directorships 4 src
J.P. Morgan · U.S. House of Representatives
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1912-01-12Lawrence "Bread and Roses" Strike: IWW Unites 20,000 Workers Across 51 Nationalities, Wins 15% Raise 3 src
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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1911-01-16Aldrich Plan for Banking Reform Submitted: Secret Jekyll Island Meeting Proposes Wall Street-Controlled Central Bank 4 srcconfirmed
1910-06-18Mann-Elkins Act Strengthens Railroad Regulation, Expands ICC Authority to Telecommunications 3 src
William Howard Taft · Interstate Commerce Commission
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1909-08-05Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party 4 src
William Howard Taft
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1903-10-29Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes 3 src
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
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1901-03-10Carnegie Sells to J.P. Morgan: U.S. Steel Becomes First Billion-Dollar Corporation 3 src
Andrew Carnegie · J.P. Morgan · U.S. Steel Corporation
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1901-03-01J.P. Morgan Creates Northern Securities: $400 Million Railroad Monopoly 3 src
J.P. Morgan · James J. Hill · Edward H. Harriman · Northern Securities Company · +1
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1893-03-03Anti-Pinkerton Act: Congress Limits Private Armies After Homestead Violence 3 src
U.S. Congress · Pinkerton Detective Agency
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1890-01-01Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities 3 src confirmed
1887-10-27Sugar Trust Formation: Henry Havemeyer Consolidates 75% of Sugar Refining 3 src confirmed
1887-07-06Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians 4 src
Sanford B. Dole
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1885-07-01J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion 3 src
J.P. Morgan
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1878-02-28Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage 3 src
Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress
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1877-06-21Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration 4 src
Pinkerton Detective Agency
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1875-05-10Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue 4 src
Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury Department
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1874-12-07Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff 3 src
White League · Ulysses S. Grant
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1873-09-18Panic of 1873: Railroad Speculation Triggers Economic Collapse 3 src
Northern Pacific Railroad
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1866-01-01Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name 3 src
Railroad companies
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1142-01-01Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Pre-Constitutional Democratic Model 3 src
Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Indigenous Leadership · Benjamin Franklin · John Adams · +1
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