Despite their differences conservatives and libertarians are united in opposition to the Bretton Woods type system.
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Bretton Woods is where the world leaders met and constituted a post-war world monetary order.
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Early reports from Bretton Woods II seem to indicate a kind of intellectual paralysis.
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Brits redeeming greenbacks for gold, setting off the bank run that killed Bretton Woods.
Soros and other investors held a conference at the Bretton Woods Resort hotel near Mt.
But in August, 1971, President Nixon terminated gold convertibility of the dollar, thereby abolishing Bretton Woods.
It won't be nearly as substantive as Bretton Woods, but it might be almost as symbolic.
The original Bretton Woods deal created financial stability with a system of fixed exchange rates.
SDRs were created in 1969 to support the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system.
The Bretton Woods System was created in no small part because of this situation.
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From 1944 to 1973 stability was supplied by the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates.
Lastly, under Bretton Woods there was no real alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency.
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The recent experience with the Bretton Woods System shows why your model is a bad idea.
Yet Bretton Woods broke down almost 30 years ago and fewer countries now peg their currencies.
The destruction of Bretton Woods in the early 1970s led to a horrific, inflation-wracked decade.
The secular bull market for gold is over, said Paul Hoffmeister, senior economist with Bretton Woods Research.
It was known as the Bretton Woods system and it helped stabilize the currencies of participating countries.
According to Mr Duncan, under Bretton Woods global foreign-exchange reserves grew by 55% between 1949 and 1969.
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Bretton Woods thinks the printing press will slow at the Fed in the second or third quarters.
The gold-based Bretton Woods monetary system provided the currency stability necessary for the resumption of international trade.
Up until the 1970s, when the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates broke down, these were common.
Had a Bretton Woods-type arrangement been in place during recent years, the current crisis would never have happened.
The shift in currency rates, according to Dalio, will be akin to the Bretton Woods break-up in 1971.
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Under Bretton Woods, the Europeans, as they regained their exporting strength, amassed ever greater dollar claims on America.
Your analysis of the Bretton Woods System (BWS) and the role of gold in it is completely wrong.
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They were cutting taxes every year, and kept the yen pegged to gold via the Bretton Woods system.
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So I think, Bretton Woods is a very - is a grandiose way of describing what might be done.
During Bretton Woods, the world monetary order was generally stable and increasingly integrated.
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Peter Chowla, a co-ordinator at the Bretton Woods Project, a campaign group set up to monitor the World Bank.
Current account deficits have nearly tripled to 2.2% of world GDP from only 0.8% of GDP under Bretton Woods.
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