THE SUMMIT: BRETTON WOODS, 1944: J.M. KEYNES AND THE RESHAPING OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY By Ed Conway Perseus Books, $27.95, 453 pages, illustrated That great Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle, a master ...

One of the interesting themes that I took away from attending the Kemp Foundation’s Kemp Forum on Exchange Rates and the Dollar, on April 20 in Washington DC, was that there are three clear options ...

Why Rethinking of Bretton Woods? Through a series of three articles, the 1944 Bretton Woods ambitions and edifices (US dollar as the global reserve currency, the IMF and the Worldbank) are assessed ...

The achievements of the Bretton Woods Conference are under threat In was just three weeks after D-Day when, on July 1, 1944, delegates of 44 countries descended on a faded Gilded Age resort in Bretton ...

With WWII still unresolved, intellectual battles were raging over how to create an enduring global monetary order. To settle the issue, world leaders convened in 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

The gold-convertible U.S. dollar became the global reserve currency under the Bretton Woods monetary system, which lasted from 1944-1971. This arrangement ended because foreign central banks ...

BRETTON WOODS, N.H. — Sixty-seven years ago at the Mount Washington Resort here, the world’s financial leaders gathered to try to come up with a new order for the world economy to replace the one ...

Britain’s chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, center right, at the start of the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting on Friday, May 10 in Aylesbury, England. The role of ...

On July 22nd 1944, finance experts who had spent the past three weeks gathered at a hotel in New Hampshire, produced two documents setting out their plan for the post-war monetary system. In response, ...

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. dollar has enjoyed a unique and powerful position in international trade. But perhaps no more. Before boarding a plane on Saturday to meet President George W.