The Bretton Woods system established the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency in the post-World War II global economy. As Allied forces viewed that the war was coming to an end, representatives ...

“We will try,” White spat out in one particularly heated session, “to produce something which your highness can understand.” White’s role as the chief architect of Bretton ...

In July of 1944, representatives from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. The United States ...

The Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. On July 1, 1944, as the battles of the Second World War raged in Europe and the Pacific, delegates from forty-four nations met at the ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement helped to establish institutions ... international payments between countries. The World Bank set out on a mission to help alleviate poverty, and it served as a model ...

The postwar system created at the Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, conference in 1944 should be ... and the lifting of billions of people out of extreme poverty. But capital-driven globalization was also ...

When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a "new Bretton Woods" agreement in October 2008 ... and developing countries resisted being left out of the ...

The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and replaced by democratic ... it acts as policeman when it enforces its Structural Adjustment Policies and as fireman when it steps in to help out ...

The post-Bretton Woods system lasted for almost eight decades, so its replacement is an enormous task. Nevertheless, its death by thousand cuts has begun in Kazan which may take two or three ...

Earlier this week, Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Pozsar published a research memo titled “Bretton Woods III” that argued the West’s Russia sanctions were an inflection point moment that ...