The Bretton Woods system effectively ended when the United States suspended the dollar’s convertibility to gold in 1971, ...

Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has been drawing attention to the environmental and financial threats faced by small and vulnerable countries like hers. By David Gelles As global warming ...

Mike Dooley of Deutsche Bank and UCSB makes the case that the new Bretton Woods system of fixed or heavily managed exchange rates on the “periphery” makes large (though not necessarily growing) ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Benn Steil talks about the creation of the Bretton Woods system following World War II. Benn Steil talks about the creation of the Bretton Woods ...

Dan Drezner started a post with the Triffin dilemma, so I figure I too can digress into the realm of history. The Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates (Bretton Woods 1) collapsed, in some ...

China should take renminbi pricing and settlement in bulk commodity trade and across entire industrial chains as key breakthrough points, comprehensively enhancing the currency’s pricing power and ...

The Battle of Bretton Woods sets forth in smooth prose and concise detail an authoritative narrative of the who-what-when-why of the great monetary conference of some 70 years ago. It is jam-packed ...

(Reuters) - Here are some details about the financial architecture established in 1944 by the Bretton Woods Conference, which European leaders now say needs updating: * THE CONFERENCE - WHAT DID IT DO ...

Tariffs were an urgent necessity. They’re already working. By Jamieson Greer What Trump’s dramatic revision of the global trade system is intended to accomplish — and reasons for skepticism. By Ross ...

(Reuters) - Members of the G20 grouping of nations were set to arrive on Friday in Washington to discuss ways to reform the global financial system. Here are some details about the financial ...