By itself, Bretton Woods would not restore world commerce to free competition among individual traders. That depended on the nations’ attitudes towards such fundamentals as free enterprise and ...

By 1973, the Bretton Woods system had collapsed. Countries were then free to choose any exchange arrangement for their currency, except pegging its value to the price of gold. They could ...

BRETTON WOODS TURNS 80: It’s 80 years since the IMF and the early iteration of the World Bank were founded in the New Hampshire town of Bretton Woods, giving a new name to the emerging ...

The consensus seems to be that there are many things to be done, but talk is also growing about whether we need a major moment of institutional reform—a "Climate Bretton Woods." We seem to have ...

Bretton Woods Ski Area and Omni Mount Washington Resort are auctioning off a piece of ski history this season. Well, pieces. An online auction of 50 vintage chairs, called “Lift Up Our Community ...

The RBI’s Annual Report (1971-72) noted that the demise of Bretton Woods implied changes of a far-reaching nature in the international monetary system "What I have in mind (is that we ...

By 1973 the Bretton Woods system had collapsed. Countries were then free to choose any exchange arrangement for their currency, except pegging its value to the price of gold. They could ...