| 2025-04-09 | Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145% Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration |
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| 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 Standard & Poor's · Moody's Investors Service · Fitch Ratings · Department of Justice · +1 |
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| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 |
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| 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 Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3 |
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| 2011-12-01 | GAO Audit Reveals Massive $16.1 Trillion in Secret Federal Reserve Crisis Loans Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Citigroup · Morgan Stanley · +5 |
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| 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 Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 |
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| 2010-04-14 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposed Systematic Foreclosure Document Fraud Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · Citigroup · +1 |
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| 2010-01-01 | Foreclosure Crisis Extracts $200 Billion in Black Household Wealth: Largest Destruction of Black Assets in American History Wells Fargo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase |
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| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Wall Street Banks · Lanny Breuer · +1 |
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| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 |
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| 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 Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +6 |
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| 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 American International Group · Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · +3 |
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| 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 Lehman Brothers · Richard Fuld · Henry Paulson · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
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| 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 Angelo Mozilo · Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 |
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| 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 Bear Stearns · JPMorgan Chase · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Ben Bernanke · +3 |
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| 2008-01-01 | Shell companies spend $890M on Trump condos during financial crisis Trump Organization · Anonymous shell companies · Delaware LLCs · British Virgin Islands corporations · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks Securities and Exchange Commission · Christopher Cox · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · +4 |
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| 2001-12-22 | Argentina Declares Largest Sovereign Default in History on $100+ Billion Debt After IMF Austerity Collapse Adolfo Rodriguez Saá · International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa · Argentine creditors | | confirmed |
| 2001-12-01 | Argentina Imposes 'Corralito' Bank Account Freeze Under IMF Austerity, Triggering Mass Protests International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa · Domingo Cavallo · Argentine Central Bank | | confirmed |
| 2000-12-21 | Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan · +1 |
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| 1999-11-05 | President's Working Group Recommends Exempting $80 Trillion Derivatives Market from Regulation Lawrence Summers · Robert Rubin · Alan Greenspan · Arthur Levitt · +2 |
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| 1999-07-02 | Lawrence Summers Becomes Treasury Secretary, Accelerates Derivatives Deregulation Campaign Lawrence Summers · Bill Clinton · Robert Rubin · U.S. Senate · +1 |
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| 1999-02-15 | Time Magazine Celebrates "Committee to Save the World" While They Block Derivatives Regulation Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · Time Magazine · +1 |
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| 1999-01-25 | IMF Concludes Comprehensive Structural Adjustment in Southeast Asia International Monetary Fund · World Bank · Asian Governments · Multinational Corporations · +1 |
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| 1998-08-17 | Russia Defaults on Debt and Abandons Ruble Defense: Largest Sovereign Default in History Caps Decade of Economic Devastation Boris Yeltsin · Sergei Kiriyenko · International Monetary Fund · Central Bank of Russia · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1998-05-07 | Brooksley Born's Derivatives Regulation Warning Systematically Suppressed Brooksley Born · Robert Rubin · Lawrence Summers · Alan Greenspan · +1 |
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| 1997-10-15 | IMF Imposes Radical Structural Adjustment on Indonesia International Monetary Fund · Suharto Government · World Bank · McKinsey & Company · +1 |
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| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud George H.W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Resolution Trust Corporation · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| 1989-01-01 | S&L Industry Collapse: Over 1,000 Institutions Failed by 1989 Savings and Loan institutions · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation · Resolution Trust Corporation |
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| 1979-10-06 | Volcker Shock - Federal Reserve Raises Rates to 20%, Recession Begins Paul Volcker · Jimmy Carter |
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| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins Gerald Ford · William Simon · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld · +2 |
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| 1931-06-01 | Banking Crisis Accelerates with 2,300 Bank Failures in 1931 as Hoover Resists Federal Intervention Herbert Hoover · Federal Reserve · American bankers · depositors | | confirmed |
| 1907-11-02 | Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Elbert H. Gary · Henry Clay Frick · +3 | | 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 |
| 1819-01-01 | Panic of 1819 Erupts from Second Bank Speculation and Baltimore Branch Fraud Second Bank of the United States · William Jones · Langdon Cheves · Baltimore branch directors | | confirmed |