Capture lane

Regulatory Capture

The Regulatory Capture capture lane traces 1573 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

1573 events From Jan 1, 1819 To Jun 10, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1819–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2003-05-28Bush Signs JGTRRA - Dividend and Capital Gains Rates Slashed to 15%, Massively Favoring Investment Income Over Wages 4 src
George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Americans for Tax Reform · Grover Norquist · +2
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2003-05-06Coalition Provisional Authority Loses .8B in Iraqi Oil Revenue 3 src
Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Halliburton · Iraqi Government
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2003-05-06Paul Bremer Begins Issuing 'CPA 100 Orders' to Restructure Iraq's Economy Under Military Occupation 6 src
Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1
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2003-03-08Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties 4 src
Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1
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2003-02-05Colin Powell Presents False WMD Evidence to UN Security Council 3 src
Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Central Intelligence Agency
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2003-01-15WHIG Establishes Systematic Opposition Research and Critic Monitoring Apparatus 3 src
Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Condoleezza Rice · +2
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2003-01-07OCC Preempts Georgia Fair Lending Law, Blocking State Consumer Protections 3 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · National City Bank · American Bankers Association
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2003-01-01ExxonMobil Channels Millions to Climate Denial Think Tanks and Front Groups 4 src
ExxonMobil · American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Competitive Enterprise Institute
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2002-11-25WHIG Establishes Executive Deception Infrastructure as Constitutional Precedent for Crisis Governance 3 src
White House Iraq Group · Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Dick Cheney · +4
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2002-11-20OSP Systematically Bypasses CIA Vetting to Feed Fabricated Intelligence to WHIG 3 src
Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Karl Rove · +3
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2002-10-29Help America Vote Act Signed: Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, and Electronic Voting Vulnerabilities 4 src
George W. Bush · U.S. Election Assistance Commission
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2002-10-16WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception 3 src
George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · U.S. Congress · Constitutional Framework · +4
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2002-10-11Iraq War Authorization Vote Succeeds Through WHIG's Systematic Congressional Deception 3 src
White House Iraq Group · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Hillary Clinton · +5
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2002-10-05WHIG Systematically Withholds Contradictory Intelligence from Congress 3 src
White House Iraq Group · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · George Tenet · +4
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2002-10-01Powell Memorandum Media Infrastructure Coordinates with WHIG for Crisis-Accelerated Propaganda Implementation 3 src
White House Iraq Group
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2002-09-28WHIG Launches Coordinated Pressure Campaigns Against Congressional War Authorization Skeptics 3 src
Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Michael Gerson · Dick Cheney · +1
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2002-09-20WHIG Provides Fabricated Intelligence Briefings to Congressional Committees 3 src
White House Iraq Group · George Tenet · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · +2
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2002-09-15WHIG Coordinates Systematic Deception in Classified Congressional Intelligence Briefings 3 src
Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Senate Intelligence Committee
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2002-09-12Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud 3 src confirmed
2002-09-08WHIG Launches 'Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud' Propaganda Blitz 3 src
White House Iraq Group · Condoleezza Rice · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2
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2002-09-07WHIG Coordinates Sunday Show Booking Blitz 9 src
Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · Donald Rumsfeld · Richard Armitage · +3
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2002-09-07WHIG Executes Coordinated Media Blitz Demonstrating Crisis Template 5 src
Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · Colin Powell
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2002-09-05Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances 3 src
Karen Hughes
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2002-09-01Pentagon Creates Office of Special Plans for Iraq Intelligence Manipulation 3 src
Douglas Feith · Pentagon · Central Intelligence Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee
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2002-08-30Bartlett and Fleischer Establish Rapid Response Media Coordination Infrastructure 3 src
Ari Fleischer · White House Iraq Group
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2002-08-25CBS Executives Implement Corporate Policy Changes to Accommodate WHIG Propaganda Distribution 3 src
George W. Bush
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2002-08-15CNN Executives Coordinate with WHIG to Facilitate September Propaganda Rollout 3 src
White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes
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2002-08-15CNN Executives Meet with White House on Iraq Coverage 3 src
Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · CNN
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2002-08-01Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program 6 src
Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +2
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2002-08-01DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution 2 src
United Nations
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2002-08-01White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign 3 src
Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · Stephen Hadley · +3
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2002-07-31Entergy Purchases Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant for $180 Million, Memorandum of Understanding Creates Decade of Regulatory Conflict 3 src confirmed
2002-06-25WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery 3 src
Bernard Ebbers
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2002-05-17Bush Administration Redefines Mining Waste as Fill Material to Enable Mountaintop Removal 4 src
George W. Bush · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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2002-04-01United States Incarceration Reaches 2 Million: Highest Imprisonment Rate in World History 3 src confirmed
2002-03-14Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal 3 src
Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff
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2002-02-14Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations 3 src
George W. Bush · U.S. Congress
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2002-02-12Tigua Casino Closes After Abramoff Double-Dealing Scheme Success 3 src
Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tigua Tribe · Ralph Reed · +1
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2002-01-09Arthur Andersen Admits to Shredding Tons of Enron Documents 3 src
Arthur Andersen
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2002-01-08No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime 3 src
George W. Bush · Ted Kennedy
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2002-01-01Abramoff-Reed Execute Double-Dealing Scheme Against Tigua Tribe 3 src
Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Michael Scanlon · Grover Norquist
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2002-01-01ALEC's Corporate 'Scholarship' Program Funds Legislator Trips to Luxury Resort Conferences 3 src
American Legislative Exchange Council · PhRMA · Eli Lilly · State Legislatures
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2001-12-13Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Systematically Subordinated to Corporate Input 3 src
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · Federal Agencies
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2001-12-02Enron Bankruptcy After Energy Task Force Meetings 3 src
Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow
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2001-11-01Microsoft Antitrust Settlement Establishes Weak Precedent for Tech Monopolies 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · George W. Bush · John Ashcroft · +2
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2001-11-01NSA Launches MAINWAY Database for Mass Metadata Collection 3 src
National Security Agency · AT&T · Verizon · T-Mobile · +3
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2001-10-26Bush Signs PATRIOT Act After 45-Day Rush with Minimal Debate 3 src
George W. Bush · Tom Daschle
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2001-10-22SEC Launches Investigation Into Enron's Related-Party Transactions 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Andrew Fastow · Kenneth Lay
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2001-10-04Bush Authorizes NSA Stellar Wind Program Bypassing FISA Court 4 src
George W. Bush · Michael Hayden · National Security Agency · Dick Cheney · +4
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2001-09-21AT&T Establishes Mass Internet Surveillance Infrastructure for NSA 3 src
National Security Agency · Bush Administration
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2001-06-29Patients Bill of Rights Dies After HMO Industry Spends $60 Million Lobbying Against Managed Care Accountability 3 src
George W. Bush · Health Insurance Association of America · John McCain · Edward Kennedy
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2001-06-07Bush Signs EGTRRA Tax Cuts - Top Rate Reduced from 39.6% to 35%, Estate Tax Phased Out, Beginning $1.5 Trillion Debt Increase 4 src
George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Dennis Hastert · Trent Lott · +3
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2001-06-01Abramoff-Reed Casino Scheme: Evangelical Infrastructure Monetized as Lobbying Weapon, Exposing Movement-Money Entanglement 3 src
Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Grover Norquist · Michael Scanlon · +1
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2001-06-01Choctaw Tribe Contract Reveals Abramoff-Scanlon Lobbying Fraud 3 src
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Michael Scanlon · Jack Abramoff
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2001-05-17National Energy Policy Adopts Enron Recommendations Verbatim 3 src
Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron · Kenneth Lay · +1
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2001-05-16National Energy Policy Report Released Reflecting Oil Industry Priorities 3 src
George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · +5
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2001-04-17Kenneth Lay's Influence on Cheney Energy Task Force: Corporate Policy Capture 4 src
Kenneth Lay · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron Corporation
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2001-03-13Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol 3 src
George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · +1
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2001-02-09Cheney Energy Task Force Begins Secret Meetings with Enron Executives 4 src
Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · George W. Bush
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2001-01-29Bush Administration Establishes Faith-Based Initiative Infrastructure for Systematic Constitutional Transformation 3 src
George W. Bush · Pat Robertson · U.S. Supreme Court
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2001-01-29Cheney Creates Secret Energy Task Force with Oil Executives 3 src
Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · BP America · +2
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2001-01-20Bush Administration Hires 150 Regent University Graduates 3 src
Pat Robertson · Monica Goodling · Kay Coles James · George W. Bush
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2001-01-12Clinton Roadless Rule Protects 58 Million Acres of National Forests from Logging 3 src
Bill Clinton · U.S. Forest Service
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2001-01-01Abramoff Moves to Greenberg Traurig, Partners with Michael Scanlon 3 src
Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay
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2001-01-01Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation 4 src
George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission
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2000-12-21Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation 6 src
Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan
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2000-12-09Supreme Court Grants Bush Emergency Stay with Scalia's "Irreparable Harm" Logic 6 src
Antonin Scalia · William Rehnquist · Clarence Thomas · Sandra Day O'Connor · +1
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2000-11-26Katherine Harris Certifies Bush Victory While Serving as Campaign Co-Chair 5 src
George W. Bush
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2000-11-08James Baker Coordinates Bush Supreme Court Election Strategy from Day One 4 src
George W. Bush · Republican Party
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2000-08-30Clear Channel Acquires AMFM Inc. Creating Radio Monopoly with Over 1,200 Stations 4 src
Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays
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2000-05-03FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations 4 src
Viacom · FCC Federal Communications Commission
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2000-03-10Dot-Com Bubble Peaks, Exposes IPO Fraud and Analyst Conflicts 4 src
Investment banks · Securities and Exchange Commission · Nasdaq
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2000-03-06Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System 3 src
George W. Bush · Karl Rove
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2000-02-01Halliburton Opens Tehran Office While Cheney Still CEO, Completing $40 Million Annual Iran Business Through Cayman Islands Subsidiary Designed to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions 3 src
Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bill Clinton
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2000-01-21Bolivia's Cochabamba Water War: Indigenous-Led Uprising Forces Reversal of World Bank-Mandated Bechtel Privatization 3 src
World Bank
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2000-01-11AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History 4 src
FCC Federal Communications Commission
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2000-01-01Major Strikes Collapse to 16 Annually, Down 95% from Pre-PATCO Era 2 src
American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics
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2000-01-01Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley 5 src
Supreme Court Justices
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2000-01-01Top 10% of Firms Capture 90% of Profit Growth Between 1980-2000, Documenting Monopolization 3 src confirmed
1999-11-12Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall 6 src
Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · +1
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1999-11-05President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation 4 src
Lawrence Summers · Robert Rubin · Alan Greenspan · Arthur Levitt
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1999-10-26Robert Rubin Joins Citigroup for $126 Million After Engineering Glass-Steagall Repeal 4 src
Robert Rubin · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · Goldman Sachs · +1
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1999-09-01Fannie Mae Eases Credit Requirements Under HUD Affordable Housing Pressure 3 src
Fannie Mae · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development · Andrew Cuomo
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1999-07-02Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign 4 src
Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate
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1999-04-06Abramoff and Reed Formalize Tribal Money Laundering Subcontractor Scheme 3 src
Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Americans for Tax Reform · +1
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1999-02-15Time Magazine Celebrates "Committee to Save the World" While They Block Derivatives Regulation 4 src
Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · Brooksley Born
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1998-10-28Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 512: Safe Harbor Provisions Create Dual System of Corporate Protection and Individual Vulnerability 4 src
Bill Clinton · Google · YouTube
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1998-10-27Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: Disney Lobbying Creates 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act,' Extending Corporate Rent Extraction by 20 Years 4 src
Bill Clinton · Viacom
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1998-10-07Higher Education Act Reauthorization Loosens Regulations, Enables For-Profit College Explosion 3 src
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · University of Phoenix
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1998-10-01Electronic Industries Alliance Blacklisting - K Street Project Enforcement 3 src
Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist
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1998-09-30NationsBank-BankAmerica $62 Billion Merger Creates First Coast-to-Coast National Bank 4 src
Federal Reserve · Department of Justice
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1998-09-23Federal Reserve Orchestrates $3.6 Billion Bailout of Long-Term Capital Management to Prevent Systemic Collapse 3 src
Alan Greenspan · Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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1998-09-01Federal Reserve Grants Citigroup Temporary Waiver for Glass-Steagall Violation 10 src
Federal Reserve · Alan Greenspan · Citicorp · Sandy Weill · +3
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1998-08-17Russia Defaults on Debt and Abandons Ruble Defense: Largest Sovereign Default in History Caps Decade of Economic Devastation 4 src
Boris Yeltsin · International Monetary Fund · Russian Government
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1998-06-30McKinsey Leverages Asian Financial Crisis for Consulting Expansion 3 src
McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · World Bank
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1998-06-15Corporate Exploitation of Asian Financial Crisis Structural Adjustment 3 src
Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · McKinsey & Company · International Monetary Fund · +3
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1998-05-18DOJ Files Microsoft Antitrust Suit, Establishes Tech Monopoly Precedent 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · Bill Gates · Janet Reno
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1998-05-07Brooksley Born's Derivatives Regulation Warning Systematically Suppressed 4 src
Brooksley Born · Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · +1
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1998-05-07Coordinated Regulatory Opposition Suppresses CFTC Derivatives Oversight Inquiry 4 src
Brooksley Born · Alan Greenspan · Robert Rubin · Arthur Levitt · +4
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1998-05-01Sandline "Arms-to-Africa" Scandal: UK Parliamentary Inquiry Tests PMC Accountability and Finds It Wanting 2 src
Tony Blair
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