Out of the “currency wars” of the 1930s, and then World War II, came a shared dream among the non-communist states: to establish a stable economic environment for business and trade.

Rising from his labors at Bretton Woods last July, England's Lord Keynes challenged the critics of the Keynes-White plan (for an international Fund and Bank — TIME, July 31). Said he, in ...

Calls for a new Bretton Woods in the 1980s . The exchange rate system was already unstable by the time the Second Amendment took effect in 1978, and it became much more so over the next few years. ...

Secretary Bessent is urging the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to “reconnect” with “their founding missions” and “restore order to the international system” forged by the Bretton Woods ...

The Bretton Woods Agreement was negotiated in July 1944 by 44 countries in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. It was the basis for currencies being pegged to the U.S. dollar’s value.

The Bretton Woods system established the U.S. dollar as the world’s currency in the post-World War II global economy. As Allied forces viewed that the war was coming to an end, representatives ...