Reconstruction Finance Corporation Interventions and Lending Programs (1932–1939)

1. RFC created to stabilize credit markets

   Jan 22, 1932Labels: Reconstruction Finance

   • Britannica
   • Fed History
   • Yale Docs

2. RFC begins operations and starts bank lending

   Feb 2, 1932Labels: Reconstruction Finance

   • Fed History
   • RFC Wikipedia

3. Emergency act broadens RFC to relief and public works

   Jul 21, 1932Labels: Emergency Relief

   • FRASER
   • Britannica

4. RFC creates regional agricultural credit corporations

   Jul 21, 1932Labels: Regional Agricultural

   • US Gov Manual
   • FRASER

5. Loan publicity drives “stigma” and reduces borrowing

   Aug 1, 1932Labels: Congressional disclosure

   • FDIC History
   • ScienceDirect

6. Bank holiday and Emergency Banking Act enable RFC capital injections

   Mar 9, 1933Labels: Emergency Banking

   • Yale JFC
   • FRASER RFC

7. Home Owners’ Loan Act uses RFC funding support

   Jun 13, 1933Labels: Home Owners'

   • Congress gov
   • HOLC Act

8. NIRA launches PWA, drawing on earlier RFC public-works lending model

   Jun 16, 1933Labels: Public Works

   • National Archives
   • Pepperdine NIRA

9. Commodity Credit Corporation formed with RFC-linked financing

   Oct 17, 1933Labels: Commodity Credit

   • CCC

10. RFC bank preferred-stock program becomes a major recapitalization tool

    Jan 1, 1934Labels: RFC preferred

    • Congress gov
    • ScienceDirect

11. Export-Import Bank created to finance overseas trade

    Feb 2, 1934Labels: Export-Import Bank

    • State Historian
    • EXIM History

12. Supreme Court confirms related RFC-created corporations can be sued

    May 1, 1939Labels: Keifer &

    • FindLaw
    • Mich Law