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

The World Bank has come under fire for the billions it has spent supporting ... they could not have better targets than the Bretton Woods twins.

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 ...

The singular success of Bretton Woods is attributable to the extraordinary circumstances ... Any concerns countries had about threats to national sovereignty posed by the powers given to the World ...

According to macro-economist Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou of Washington DC’s American University and leader of the Atlantic Council’s Bretton Woods 2.0 Project, the IMF and the World Bank face “existential ...

The IBRD is the lending arm of the World Bank Group and is one of the two international financial institutions — alongside the International Monetary Fund — established by the Bretton Woods ...

Instead, IMTT should be made tax deductible for companies (thereby incentivising formalisation),” it said. IMTT has found no ...

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 ...