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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

With the national debt at $39 trillion and dollar dominance already at a 30-year low, the petrodollar system is more ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bretton Woods system effectively ended when the United States suspended the dollar’s convertibility to gold in 1971, ushering in the era of floating exchange rates. Yet the US dollar has remained ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, world leaders and central bankers will convene in Washington, D.C., for the annual spring meetings of the International ...