With the end of the war in sight, the U.S. and 43 Allied nations convened in a meeting formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at a hotel in Bretton Woods ...

In July of 1944, representatives from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. The United States ...

At its conclusion, the conference attendees produced the Articles of Agreement for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bretton ...

As the president embraces Putin, longtime allies are starting to view the U.S. not just as unreliable but as a possible ...

The Bretton Woods system established the U.S. dollar ... The meeting was formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference. Since 1941, the U.S. and the U.K. had been drafting ...

Convened at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the conference brought together representatives from 44 allied nations, aiming to establish a new framework for global ...

The Bretton Woods conference established a highly regulated international currency system. The United States dollar was established as the international currency fixed at the rate of $35 per ounce ...

When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a "new Bretton Woods" agreement in October 2008, they were recalling the success of the International Monetary ...

The postwar system created at the Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, conference in 1944 should be credited with economic growth, a reduction in poverty, and the absence of destructive trade wars. It built ...