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 ...

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 ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement helped to establish institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the lender that became the World Bank. What Was the Bretton Woods Agreement? A Brief History of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long before modern states claimed monopoly control over money, international trade depended on trusted systems that operated outside sovereign authority. In medieval Europe, merchants travelling ...

"There is no other guarantee, so to say, other than confidence in the US economy, in the current global financial system," the Russian leader noted ST. PETERSBURG, June 7. /TASS/. The Bretton Woods ...

Tariffs were an urgent necessity. They’re already working. By Jamieson Greer What Trump’s dramatic revision of the global trade system is intended to accomplish — and reasons for skepticism. By Ross ...