Bretton Woods

George Soros: Why We Need Another Bretton Woods To Reinvent The Global Financial System

Project Syndicate | George Soros | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: George Soros, Bush Administration, Economy, International Monetary Fund, Bretton Woods, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, Obama Administration, China, Business News

NEW YORK -- Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundame...

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US Treasury's Gold Valued: US Gold Reserves Total $288 Billion, But Not Really

Washington Post / Big Money | Martha C. White | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Milken Institute, Fort Knox, Us Gold Reserves, Gold Reserves, Spot Gold, Liquidity, Cato Institute, Treasury, Bretton Woods, Gold, Gold Prices, Home News

Buried in the Treasury's International Reserve Position report is an intriguing bit of math. The document details the total amount, by weight, of the ...

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The Academic Man's Burden

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Jeffrey Sachs, Business School, Marshall Plan, Bill Easterly, Economics, Economy, Subsaharan Africa, Bretton Woods, Paul Collier, United Nations, League of Nations, Academia, Politics News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Academics are laggards, eternal followers that lack the ability to innovate and continue to inhabit a world of quantitative models oftentimes not descriptive of today's reality.

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A Possible Bretton Woods III

Forbes | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business

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Although we are not (yet) witnessing a U.S. dollar crisis, the Bretton Woods II system is still at the center of the debates on the origins of this cr...

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G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama G-20, Global Economy, Latin America, Central America, IMF Funding, Bretton Woods, World Bank, Imf, G-20, Global Economic Crisis, G-20 Summit, Africa, IMF Bailout, G-20 Europe, Neoliberalism, Economic Failure, Globaliation, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

The run-up to the G-20 meeting has been interesting and colorful. President Lula Da Silva of Brazil declared that "this crisis was caused by the irrat...

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Lament for G20 Failure to Help People Worst Hit by Crisis

Kumi Naidoo | Posted 12.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Brown, France, Bretton Woods, Poverty, Sarkozy, Gcap, Economy, g20, Financial Crisis, Kumi Naidoo, China, Bush, Politics News
Kumi Naidoo

The G20 has failed to consider the plight of the people who have been least responsible for this global financial crisis but who are suffering the most, men women and children in developing countries.

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Friday Talking Points [55] -- "Bretton Woods II"? Not Quite.

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...

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Bretton Woods II

Vince Farrell | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Bretton Woods, Finance, Bretton Woods II, Economy, Oregon, Business News
Vince Farrell

A crisis in the U.S. is a worldwide crisis. Only the dollar has a large enough global presence and a measure of trust to be used as the "reserve" currency for the world.

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The Great Recession

Larry Abrams | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Bob Marley, The Next President, Robert Reich, Bretton Woods, Karl Marx, Obama Administration, The Great Recession, Robert Pollin, Capitalism, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ken Mehlman, Communism, Congressional Bailout, Secretary of Labor Reich, Ben Bernanke, Jeb Hensarling, Socialism, Keynesians, Bank Bailout, Business News
Larry Abrams

We need an economic system of checks and balances where the public sector competes with the private sector and keeps it honest, and vice versa.

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Greed and Growth: New Priorities for a Stable Future

Jessica Catto | Posted 11.24.2008 | Green

Read More: World Economy, Socialism Accusations, Mccain, Bretton Woods, Obama, Nicholas Sarkozy, Capitalism, Presidential Election, Socialists, Green News
Jessica Catto

What we need is a new attitude toward world wealth and what constitutes it. Not an easy task. The world is intermeshed as never before.

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