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#Regulatory-Capture

Events indexed under #Regulatory-Capture — 618 entries in the record.

618 events From Jan 1, 1899 To Jun 9, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
1960-01-18Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors 2 src
F. Edward Hebert · House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics · Frank Pace
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1949-08-10Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards 3 src
Louis Johnson · Convair Corporation · House Armed Services Committee · Carl Vinson · +2
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1946-08-01Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime 3 src
U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · Brien McMahon · Atomic Energy Commission · +3
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1946-06-11Administrative Procedure Act Codifies Regulatory Process, Creates Industry Capture Opportunities 3 src
U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · American Bar Association · Business interests · +1
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1942-04-28Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance 3 src
U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Navy Department · Defense contractors · +1
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1942-03-26Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason 3 src
Standard Oil of New Jersey · IG Farben · Harry Truman · Thurman Arnold · +2
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1940-10-08Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes 3 src
U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1
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1936-06-19Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power 4 src
U.S. Congress · Senator Joseph T. Robinson · Representative Wright Patman · Federal Trade Commission
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1934-07-02Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Joseph P. Kennedy · Securities and Exchange Commission · Wall Street
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1933-06-16National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation 9 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · Hugh Johnson · U.S. Congress · National Recovery Administration · +3
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1927-02-25McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching 3 src
Louis Thomas McFadden · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve
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1922-04-07Albert Fall Secretly Grants Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry Sinclair Without Competitive Bidding 3 src
Albert Fall · Harry Sinclair
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1922-01-01Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion 3 src
Samuel Insull · J.P. Morgan · Van Sweringen Brothers · Delaware Corporation Commission
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1921-05-31Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department 3 src
Warren G. Harding · Albert Fall · Edwin Denby
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1920-06-05Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today 3 src
Wesley Jones · U.S. Congress · American Shipping Industry · Woodrow Wilson
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1911-03-25Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Kills 146, Exposes Corporate Negligence 6 src
Triangle Waist Company · New York Factory Investigating Commission · Frances Perkins · International Ladies Garment Workers Union
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1907-11-02Roosevelt Approves U.S. Steel Acquisition of Tennessee Coal & Iron During Panic, Exposing Reform Limits 3 src
Theodore Roosevelt · J.P. Morgan · Elbert H. Gary · Henry Clay Frick · +3
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1899-01-01Standard Oil Trust Controls 90% of U.S. Oil Refining - Monopoly Power Peak 3 src
John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Trust · Railroad corporations · Competing refineries · +1
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