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1870–1913
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1905–1941
NKNW-C015
debt sovereignty / Dominican Republic / United States
The Dominican customs receivership
A US-appointed receivership collected Dominican customs revenue for debt service and constrained changes to public debt and import duties under the 1907 convention.
Evidence position
The 1907 convention directly establishes US appointment of the receiver, the revenue order, and restrictions on Dominican debt and tariff changes.
Status boundary
The available record supports the claim within its stated scope.
Evidence base
1 public record / single-source claim, limited to what that record directly establishes
The 1910 Jekyll Island meeting was secret and influenced the Aldrich reform proposal; that fact does not by itself establish the claim that private bankers own or secretly command the later Federal Reserve System.
Evidence position
The secret meeting and its influence on the Aldrich proposal are documented; the stronger claim of private ownership or secret command over the later Federal Reserve is not established.
Status boundary
Material evidence or interpretations conflict. The disagreement is part of the record.
Evidence base
1 public record / single-source claim, limited to what that record directly establishes
The BIS was created to administer settlements and foster central-bank cooperation; its documented institutional role does not establish popular claims of a secret private authority commanding national governments.
Evidence position
The BIS origin, ownership, mandate, and central-bank functions are documented; those facts do not establish a private authority commanding national governments.
Status boundary
Material evidence or interpretations conflict. The disagreement is part of the record.
Evidence base
1 public record / single-source claim, limited to what that record directly establishes
The United States unilaterally suspended official dollar convertibility into gold, helping end Bretton Woods fixed exchange rates and shift the monetary system toward fiat currencies and floating rates.
Evidence position
The suspension of official dollar-gold convertibility and the subsequent end of the Bretton Woods parity system are documented; motive and distribution require separate analysis.
Status boundary
The available record supports the claim within its stated scope.
Evidence base
1 public record / single-source claim, limited to what that record directly establishes
structural adjustment / International / named programmes
Programme lending can condition domestic policy choices
Disbursement or debt treatment can be linked to fiscal, monetary, trade, regulatory, and ownership conditions, transferring bargaining power toward external creditors in specific programmes.
Evidence position
Programme documents directly link external financing, monitoring, and specified policy actions. The finding is about bargaining power, not universal authorship or harm.
Status boundary
The available record supports the claim within its stated scope.
Evidence base
2 public records / multi-record basis; independence and shared underlying evidence still require inspection
structural adjustment / International / named programmes
Fiscal consolidation can reduce public provision during adjustment
Adjustment can reduce or recompose public provision through expenditure ceilings, wage measures, subsidy changes, or revenue effects, but results vary by programme, composition, baseline, and crisis depth.
Evidence position
The record shows protected-spending targets alongside declining real per-capita social expenditure, import pressure on an uncompetitive industrial base, and sharply uneven poverty outcomes; the programme is not the only cause.
Status boundary
The direction or strength differs across cases, periods, or methods.
Evidence base
4 public records / multi-record basis; independence and shared underlying evidence still require inspection
structural adjustment / International / named transactions
Privatisation can change control of domestic assets
Privatisation associated with adjustment can shift ownership and control of domestic assets, including to external or concentrated owners, but must be traced transaction by transaction.
Evidence position
Programme records establish extensive privatisation and retrenchment; evaluations report both re-employment and serious failures in compensation and social protection.
Status boundary
The direction or strength differs across cases, periods, or methods.
Evidence base
2 public records / multi-record basis; independence and shared underlying evidence still require inspection
structural adjustment / International / named reforms
Liberalisation can increase external exposure
Trade or capital liberalisation can increase exposure to external finance, price shocks, and import competition depending on sequencing, productive capacity, exchange regime, and stabilising institutions.
Evidence position
Liberalisation is documented. Imports and non-traditional exports both expanded, later reviews identify industrial displacement, and household outcomes differ across period and location; no universal effect is supported.
Status boundary
The direction or strength differs across cases, periods, or methods.
Evidence base
5 public records / multi-record basis; independence and shared underlying evidence still require inspection
TARP stabilised parts of the financial system and other sectors through public risk-taking; programme components produced different recoveries, losses, beneficiaries, and counterfactual claims.
Evidence position
The statute delegated broad emergency discretion and official accounting distinguishes authorisation, disbursement, recovery, risk, and lifetime cost. Stabilisation, distribution, and moral hazard remain separate questions.
Status boundary
The direction or strength differs across cases, periods, or methods.
Evidence base
4 public records / multi-record basis; independence and shared underlying evidence still require inspection
data and political power / United States / United Kingdom / Facebook ecosystem
Cambridge Analytica and political profiling
Regulatory findings establish deceptive harvesting of Facebook data for profiling and targeting; claims about decisive election effects require separate causal evidence.
Evidence position
The regulatory finding establishes deceptive data collection and profiling practices; it does not establish a decisive effect on an election result.
Status boundary
The available record supports the claim within its stated scope.
Evidence base
1 public record / single-source claim, limited to what that record directly establishes
financial sanctions / Russia / G7 / European Union / global reserve system
Sovereign reserves as a sanctions chokepoint
The immobilisation of Russian central-bank reserves demonstrated that foreign reserve access depends on legal jurisdictions and financial infrastructure controlled by other states.
Evidence position
The sanctions action establishes that reserve access can be blocked through jurisdictions and financial infrastructure controlled by other states; immobilisation is not confiscation.
Status boundary
The available record supports the claim within its stated scope.
Evidence base
1 public record / single-source claim, limited to what that record directly establishes