1982
20 verified events recorded in 1982.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-11-17 | SEC Adopts Rule 10b-18, Legalizing Stock Buybacks and Creating Major Wealth Extraction Mechanism
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · John Shad · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-11-01 | RNC Signs Consent Decree Banning Voter Intimidation After Armed Ballot Security Task Force
4 src Republican National Committee · Democratic National Committee · Dickinson R. Debevoise | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-15 | Reagan Signs Garn-St Germain Act: Massive Thrift Deregulation
4 src Ronald Reagan · Jake Garn (R-UT) · Fernand St Germain (D-RI) · Chuck Schumer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-14 | Reagan Declares Intensified War on Drugs: Federal Drug Enforcement Budget Skyrockets as Incarceration Becomes National Policy
3 src Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · Edwin Meese · DEA | confirmed | |
| 1982-10-06 | Josemaria Escriva Beatified Despite Controversies
5 src Pope John Paul II · Josemaria Escriva · Vatican | confirmed | |
| 1982-09-20 | Bamford's The Puzzle Palace Published, First Book-Length Public History of NSA After 30 Years of Denial
2 src James Bamford · National Security Agency · Houghton Mifflin · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 1982-09-16 | Reagan Supports Philippine Dictator Marcos Despite Massive Kleptocracy
3 src Ronald Reagan · Ferdinand Marcos · Imelda Marcos · Nancy Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-09-03 | Reagan Signs TEFRA Reversing Much of ERTA - Largest Peacetime Tax Increase Raises $100 Billion After Revenue Collapse
3 src Ronald Reagan · Robert Dole · Jack Kemp · Bruce Bartlett · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-30 | Equal Rights Amendment Defeated After Schlafly's Decade-Long Campaign, Establishing Conservative Movement Model
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · STOP ERA · Eagle Forum · Ronald Reagan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-29 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982: Results Test Adopted, Section 2 Strengthened After Reagan Opposition
3 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Bob Dole · Edward Kennedy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-14 | DOJ Issues Baxter's 1982 Merger Guidelines, Revolutionizing Antitrust Enforcement Toward Corporate Permissiveness
4 src William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission · Ronald Reagan | confirmed | |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception
4 src Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Robert Bork · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure
4 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · +10 | confirmed | |
| 1982-04-22 | Berkeley Pit Mine Closes on Earth Day, Pumps Shut Off, Creating Toxic Lake Superfund Site
3 src Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Montana Department of Environmental Quality · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-03-23 | Guatemala Military Coup Brings Ríos Montt to Power with Reagan Support
3 src Ronald Reagan · Efraín Ríos Montt | confirmed | |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court
3 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-08 | AT&T Breakup Settlement Finalized, Becoming Last Major Antitrust Action for Decades
3 src AT&T · Department of Justice · Ronald Reagan · Robert Bork | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline
3 src Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Spencer Abraham · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | Reagan Deficit Explosion: National Debt Triples From $1T to $3T in Eight Years
4 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Office of Management and Budget · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 1982-01-01 | S&L Deregulation Creates Moral Hazard: Recipe for Systematic Fraud
3 src Ronald Reagan · Savings and Loan industry · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation | confirmed |