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 ...

The November 14-15 summit in Washington of heads of top industrial and developing economies has been billed by some analysts as the successor to the 1944 Bretton Woods conference. At Bretton Woods, a ...

(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 ...

Students of economic history are in for a treat. An official studying deep in the bowels of the US Treasury library has recently uncovered a prize of truly startling proportions – an 800 page plus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...