#Economic-Policy
Events indexed under #Economic-Policy — 24 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-09 | Trump Promises $2,000 'Tariff Dividend' Payments Despite Insufficient Revenue and Treasury Secretary Skepticism Donald Trump · Scott Bessent | reported | |
| 2025-11-04 | Trump Issues Executive Orders Modifying China Tariff Rates and Fentanyl-Related Duties Trump · White House | reported | |
| 2025-08-13 | Trump Revokes Executive Order on Competition Donald Trump · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2015-12-01 | McKinsey Develops Saudi Vision 2030 Economic Blueprint for Crown Prince MBS McKinsey & Company · McKinsey Global Institute · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-07-13 | Argentina Passes 'Zero Deficit Law' Under IMF Pressure, Cutting Salaries and Pensions 13% International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa · Domingo Cavallo · Argentine Congress | confirmed | |
| 1999-01-25 | IMF Concludes Comprehensive Structural Adjustment in Southeast Asia International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Asian Governments · Multinational Corporations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-07 | Carter Signs Chrysler Bailout, Corporate Welfare Precedent Set Jimmy Carter · Lee Iacocca | confirmed | |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter | 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 | |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins Gerald Ford · William Simon · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed Henry Kissinger · Prince Fahd bin Abdulaziz · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · Arthur Burns | confirmed | |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon's New Economic Policy: Unilateral Price Controls, Gold-Window Closure, and 10% Import Surcharge Demonstrate Peak Imperial Presidency Richard Nixon · John Connally · Arthur Burns · Paul Volcker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine Milton Friedman · Chicago School economists | confirmed | |
| 1946-02-20 | Employment Act of 1946 Gutted, Full Employment Guarantee Abandoned U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +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 | |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Business community · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1897-07-24 | Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield William McKinley · Nelson Dingley Jr. · Republican Party · Industrial trusts · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power William Jennings Bryan · Democratic National Convention · Populist Party · Eastern banking interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1837-05-10 | Panic of 1837 Begins as Banks Refuse Specie Conversion, Triggering Five-Year Depression Martin Van Buren · Andrew Jackson · New York banks · State banks · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1836-07-11 | Jackson Issues Specie Circular Requiring Hard Money for Land Purchases, Triggering Credit Contraction Andrew Jackson · Levi Woodbury · Martin Van Buren · U.S. Treasury Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1832-07-10 | Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides Andrew Jackson · Nicholas Biddle · Henry Clay · Daniel Webster · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1816-04-27 | Tariff of 1816 Establishes Protectionism as Core of American System Economic Policy Henry Clay · U.S. Congress · Northern manufacturers · Southern planters | confirmed |