| 1974-07-01 | William Simon Establishes Petrodollar Recycling System
3 src Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Treasury · Saudi Arabia | | confirmed |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed
3 src Henry Kissinger · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · United States · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-01 | ALEC Organizational Profile: Corporate Vote-Buying Mechanism Disguised as Legislative Council
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1972-09-01 | BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1972-03-30 | Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates
4 src Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 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 Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1964-11-03 | AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign
2 src American Enterprise Institute · Barry Goldwater · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 1944-07-01 | Bretton Woods Conference Establishes Dollar Hegemony Through IMF and World Bank
4 src U.S. Treasury · International Monetary Fund · World Bank | | 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 · Federal Reserve · U.S. Treasury Department | | confirmed |
| 1935-09-08 | Huey Long Assassinated, Ending "Share Our Wealth" Challenge to Both Corporate Power and New Deal Moderation
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · 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 · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve Board |
| 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 · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1935-05-11 | Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1934-11-20 | Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
3 src Du Pont family · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Ferdinand Pecora |
| 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 · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
| confirmed |
| 1933-05-27 | Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 1933-05-24 | J.P. Morgan Jr. Testifies, Preferred List and Tax Evasion Exposed
4 src Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency · Calvin Coolidge | | confirmed |
| 1933-05-23 | Pecora Commission Exposes Albert Wiggin's Short Selling of Chase Bank Stock
3 src 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 · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1933-03-31 | Civilian 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 |
| 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 · Banking industry |
| 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1933-02-21 | Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace
4 src National City Bank · Ferdinand Pecora · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | | confirmed |
| 1917-07-28 | War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion
3 src Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War 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 · Woodrow Wilson |
| confirmed |
| 1913-12-23 | Federal Reserve Act Creates Central Banking System: Wilson Signs Compromise Between Private Bank Control and Government Oversight
3 src Woodrow Wilson · J.P. Morgan |
| confirmed |
| 1913-10-03 | Underwood Tariff Slashes Corporate Protection, Establishes Modern Income Tax After 16th Amendment
4 src Woodrow Wilson · Democratic Party |
| confirmed |
| 1913-04-01 | JP Morgan Dies in Rome: House of Morgan Partners Blame Pujo Committee Testimony Stress
4 src J.P. 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 J.P. Morgan · U.S. House of Representatives | | 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) |
| confirmed |
| 1911-01-16 | Aldrich Plan for Banking Reform Submitted: Secret Jekyll Island Meeting Proposes Wall Street-Controlled Central Bank
4 src | | confirmed |
| 1910-06-18 | Mann-Elkins Act Strengthens Railroad Regulation, Expands ICC Authority to Telecommunications
3 src William Howard Taft · Interstate Commerce Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1909-08-05 | Payne-Aldrich Tariff Betrays Progressive Promises: Taft Praises "Best Tariff Bill," Splits Republican Party
4 src William Howard Taft |
| confirmed |
| 1903-10-29 | Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
| 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 |
| 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 · +1 |
| 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1887-10-27 | Sugar Trust Formation: Henry Havemeyer Consolidates 75% of Sugar Refining
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians
4 src Sanford B. Dole |
| confirmed |
| 1885-07-01 | J.P. Morgan Yacht Meeting: Ending Railroad Competition Through Financial Coercion
3 src J.P. Morgan |
| confirmed |
| 1878-02-28 | Bland-Allison Act Overrides Presidential Veto, Restores Silver Coinage
3 src 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 |
| confirmed |
| 1875-05-10 | Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue
4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury Department |
| confirmed |
| 1874-12-07 | Vicksburg Massacre: White League Kills 150-300 Black Citizens, Overthrows Sheriff
3 src White League · Ulysses S. Grant |
| confirmed |
| 1873-09-18 | Panic of 1873: Railroad Speculation Triggers Economic Collapse
3 src Northern Pacific Railroad | | confirmed |
| 1866-01-01 | Alabama Initiates Convict Leasing: Slavery by Another Name
3 src Railroad companies |
| confirmed |
| 1142-01-01 | Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Pre-Constitutional Democratic Model
3 src Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Indigenous Leadership · Benjamin Franklin · John Adams · +1 |
| confirmed |