Just another attempt to ignore the law and dare the courts to step in. By Lev Menand and Joel Michaels Tariffs were an urgent necessity. They’re already working. By Jamieson Greer What Trump’s ...

In 1944, with the death machine of World War II still very much churning, the Bretton Woods conference saw delegates from 45 nations descend on New Hampshire to devise rules that would govern the post ...

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) ...

The Bretton Woods system helped reshape the postwar global economy, but the Philippines’ experience was marked by US economic and military influence, including the Bell Trade Act and parity rights. As ...

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 ...

This Economic Letter summarizes the papers presented at the symposium “Revived Bretton Woods System: A New Paradigm for Asian Development?” held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on ...

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of participating in the conversations held in the various lounges and side events connected to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement, which led to the Bretton Woods System, unified forty-four nations to tackle a communal problem. It created fixed foreign exchange rates under the Bretton Woods Monetary ...