In 1944 the major world powers met at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire in the United States to organize an international monetary system that would alleviate many of the foreign-exchange ...

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.

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 ...

This year marks the 75 th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference that created the World Bank and its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). From July 1 to 22, 1944, ...

In the Spring of 1944, the world’s attention was rightly focused elsewhere. American and British troops were stuck at the Anzio beachhead in Italy, surrounded by Germans. The Red Army was flooding ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A Treasury economist rummaging in the department's library has stumbled on a historical treasure hiding in plain sight: a transcript of the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 that cast the ...

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 ...

The 1944 Bretton Woods conference will be remembered as enacting the global and financial power shift from a waning British empire towards an emerging American empire. Battles were still raging on ...