| 2025-04-09 | Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145%
8 src Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-03 | S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010
3 src Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-29 | DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis
4 src Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-16 | SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges
2 src Goldman Sachs · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-14 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposed Systematic Foreclosure Document Fraud
3 src Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · Citigroup |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Foreclosure Crisis Extracts $200 Billion in Black Household Wealth: Largest Destruction of Black Assets in American History
3 src Wells Fargo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Lanny Breuer · Covington & Burling |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
3 src Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-10-03 | Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis
4 src Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-16 | Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · Henry Paulson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-15 | Lehman Brothers Files Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History with $639 Billion in Assets After Government Refuses Bailout, Creating Arbitrary 'Too Big to Fail' Enforcement Where Bear Stearns and AIG Were Rescued But Lehman Was Allowed to Collapse, Triggering Global Financial Panic
2 src Lehman Brothers · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges
4 src Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-03-16 | Bear Stearns Collapse and Federal Reserve-Facilitated Fire Sale to JPMorgan with $29 Billion Taxpayer Guarantee Establishes 'Too Big to Fail' Precedent with Zero Criminal Prosecutions Despite Fraud-Driven Collapse
3 src Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Shell companies spend $890M on Trump condos during financial crisis
7 src Trump Organization | | confirmed |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-12-22 | Argentina Declares Largest Sovereign Default in History on $100+ Billion Debt After IMF Austerity Collapse
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2001-12-01 | Argentina Imposes 'Corralito' Bank Account Freeze Under IMF Austerity, Triggering Mass Protests
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2000-12-21 | Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation
6 src Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 1999-11-05 | President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation
4 src Lawrence Summers · Robert Rubin · Alan Greenspan · Arthur Levitt |
| confirmed |
| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign
4 src Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate |
| confirmed |
| 1999-02-15 | Time Magazine Celebrates "Committee to Save the World" While They Block Derivatives Regulation
4 src Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · Brooksley Born |
| confirmed |
| 1999-01-25 | IMF Concludes Comprehensive Structural Adjustment in Southeast Asia
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Multinational Corporations · Asian Development Bank |
| confirmed |
| 1998-08-17 | Russia 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 | | confirmed |
| 1998-05-07 | Brooksley Born's Derivatives Regulation Warning Systematically Suppressed
4 src Brooksley Born · Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1997-10-15 | IMF Imposes Radical Structural Adjustment on Indonesia
5 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank · McKinsey & Company |
| confirmed |
| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud
4 src George H.W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Resolution Trust Corporation · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1989-01-01 | S&L Industry Collapse: Over 1,000 Institutions Failed by 1989
3 src Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Resolution Trust Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins
3 src Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins
3 src Gerald Ford · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld |
| confirmed |
| 1931-06-01 | Banking Crisis Accelerates with 2,300 Bank Failures in 1931 as Hoover Resists Federal Intervention
4 src Herbert Hoover · Federal Reserve | | confirmed |
| 1907-11-02 | Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits
3 src Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Henry Clay Frick · U.S. Steel Corporation | | confirmed |
| 1837-05-10 | Panic of 1837 Begins as Banks Refuse Specie Conversion, Triggering Five-Year Depression
6 src Martin Van Buren · Andrew Jackson · State banks · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1819-01-01 | Panic of 1819 Erupts from Second Bank Speculation and Baltimore Branch Fraud
3 src Second Bank of the United States | | confirmed |