He wants to reconnect to Bretton Woods but shrinks from addressing the central feature of the Bretton Woods System ...

For better and often for worse, the U.S.-led IMF and World Bank have dominated the post–World War II international economy.

United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls for major reforms at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to correct ...

The architects of the Bretton Woods pact recognized that global growth required global coordination, U.S. Treasury Secretary ...

The IMF and the World Bank were set up as guarantors of the global capitalist system with the US at its head, but now all is ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are guilty of ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke Wednesday to international economists attending IMF and World Bank spring meetings in ...

It is also why, at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, Keynes opposed a global trading system that allowed countries to run large, persistent trade surpluses. A system that accommodated these ...