The Bretton Woods institutions mdash;the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank mdash;have long been heralded ...

The fall of the pound and the rise of Bitcoin show a shift in global currency power, moving from gold to crypto.

John Maynard Keynes of the United Kingdom, Henry Morgenthau of the U.S. and the other top Allied officials who gathered in ...

Barry Eichengreen explains why the US president’s second administration, unlike his first, is targeting all three.

While Britain has for the most part had a strong commitment to free trade , it's a very different story in the US, which has ...

Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G In July 1944, as World War II raged on, representatives from 44 nations gathered in Bretton ...

As Trump pulls back from multilateral institutions, China is stepping in to reshape global governance on its terms. Through the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing is deepening economic ties with Europe ...

The previous world order has come to an end. In the new one, all that matter are brute force, power, and money, writes the ...

The U.S. and the Bretton Woods Twins: Fiction and Fact There is a fiction that the IMF and World Bank are multilateral institutions that are owned by their many member governments. The reality is ...

Although no country operates on a pure gold standard anymore, many central banks have large amounts of gold reserves as a safeguard against the threat of economic crisis. Read on to learn more about ...