Legislation

The Gold Standard Act formally placed the United States on the gold standard, fixing the dollar at 2...

Alexander Hamiltons whiskey tax of 1791 was the first tax on a domestic product by the new US govern...

The Stamp Act of 1765 imposed the first direct tax on American colonists. It required printed materi...

The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 lowered capital gains taxes from 20 to 15 ...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was the largest tax overhaul in 30 years. It cut the corporate tax...

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was the largest climate investment in US history, allocating 369...

The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 allocated 52 billion to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing in t...

The Banking Act of 1933, known as Glass-Steagall, separated commercial banking from investment banki...

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 repealed the Glass-Steagall separation of commercial and investme...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was the most comprehensive fin...

The Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 regulated futures and options trading in the United States. It wa...

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive took effect in 2007, creating a single market for fin...

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the central bank of the United States after a century withou...