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Subcategories - Banks, Banking, Finance

1. Albert Gallatin
2. Andrew Mellon
3. Bank of England Is Chartered
4. The Bank of United States Fails
5. The Banking Act of 1933 Reorganizes the American Banking System
6. The Banking Act of 1935 Centralizes U.S. Monetary Control
7. Brazil’s Ailing Economy Gets $41.5 Billion in International Aid
8. Bush Responds to the Savings and Loan Crisis
9. Congress Deregulates Banks and Savings and Loans
10. Congress Passes the Federal Credit Union Act
11. The Corrupt Practices Act Limits Political Contributions
12. The Credit-Anstalt Bank of Austria Fails
13. Devaluation of the Dollar
14. Elimination of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts Ends a Myth
15. Europeans Agree on Euro Currency
16. Federal Regulators Authorize Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
17. Federal Reserve Act
18. The Federal Reserve Act Creates a U.S. Central Bank
19. A Financial Panic Results from a Run on the Knickerbocker Trust
20. The First Homeowner’s Insurance Policies Are Offered
21. The First Morris Plan Bank Opens
22. The FNMA Promotes Home Ownership
23. France Nationalizes Its Banking and Industrial Sectors
24. Illegal Trading Destroys Barings, Britain’s Oldest Bank
25. Independent Treasury Is Established
26. Italy Creates the Industrial Reconstruction Institute
27. J. P. Morgan
28. Jackson vs. the Bank of the United States
29. Jacques Necker
30. Jay Cooke
31. Keating Is Sentenced for Securities Fraud
32. The McFadden Act Regulates Branch Banking
33. Merrill Lynch Concentrates on Small Investors
34. Mexico Renegotiates Debt to U.S. Banks
35. Military Finances
36. National Bank Acts
37. The Negotiable Certificate of Deposit Is Introduced
38. Nicholas Biddle
39. Pakistani Bank Is Charged with Money Laundering
40. Robert Morris
41. The Rothschild Family
42. Second Bank of the United States Is Chartered
43. The Securities Exchange Act Establishes the Securities and Exchange Commission
44. Swiss Banks Agree on Compensation of Holocaust Victims
45. The U.S. Government Bails Out Continental Illinois Bank
46. U.S. Mint Introduces Sacagawea Dollar Coin
47. U.S. Regional Branch Banking Is Approved
48. The Ultramares Case Establishes Liability for Auditors
49. William Paterson