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 ...

When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a "new Bretton Woods" agreement in October 2008, they were recalling the success of the International Monetary ...

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 foundations of Bretton Woods II crumbled last week when the G7 seized Russia’s foreign exchange reserves, the investment bank said. The Russian-Ukrainian war will create a new world financial ...

Marking these anniversaries offered an opportunity to reflect on a familiar list of triumphs—not just the defeat of fascism ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement helped to establish institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the lender that became the World Bank. With the end of the war in sight, the U.S. and 43 ...

In late 2008, with the world engulfed in the worst financial crisis since the great depression, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown each called for a ...

The original Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates broke down in the early 1970s when the US ditched the gold standard. But in the post-Asia crisis period, the Bretton Woods II surfaced, ...

The global economic cooperation that has held sway since the end of World War II is challenged by new political forces The British vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as ...