Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|
| 2026-01-01 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Expire, Premiums Double for 22 Million Americans Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump |
| confirmed |
| 2020-10-21 | DOJ Purdue Settlement Allows Sacklers to Keep Billions in Extracted Wealth U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2020-01-01 | CEO Pay Ratio Reaches 351-to-1 Versus Average Worker, Up from 21-to-1 in 1965 CEOs · Corporate boards · Workers |
| confirmed |
| 2018-11-13 | Amazon Selects NYC and Arlington for HQ2—Extracting at Least $4.6 Billion in Subsidies Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Andrew Cuomo · Bill de Blasio · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2018-03-15 | Toys 'R' Us Liquidation: PE Firms Extract $470 Million, 33,000 Workers Get Nothing Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · 33,000 Toys R Us workers |
| confirmed |
| 2018-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Again on $11.2 Billion Profit—Receives $129 Million Tax Rebate Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-01 | Amazon Pays Zero Federal Income Tax on $5.6 Billion Profit Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-01 | Council of Economic Advisers: Market Power Suppresses Wages, Contributes to $1+ Trillion in Lost Worker Income Council of Economic Advisers · Workers · Dominant firms |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders S&P 500 companies · Shareholders · Workers |
| confirmed |
| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · Toys R Us |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-01 | Private Equity Assets Under Management Reach $1 Trillion, Enabling Systematic Extraction Across Economy Blackstone · KKR · Bain Capital · Apollo · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Stock Options Become Primary Executive Compensation, Aligning CEO Interests with Short-Term Stock Price Manipulation Corporate boards · Compensation consultants · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 1989-02-09 | KKR's $31 Billion RJR Nabisco Leveraged Buyout Establishes Private Equity Wealth Extraction Model KKR · Henry Kravis · Ross Johnson · RJR Nabisco |
| confirmed |
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism Securities and Exchange Commission · John Shad · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-01 | Jack Welch Becomes GE CEO, Launches 'Shareholder Value' Era and Mass Layoffs Jack Welch · General Electric |
| 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 |