Topic: Bretton Woods System

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The G20 must get serious or risk irrelevance – and a second recession

The G20 has failed to follow through on its coordinated reform agenda. In Cannes this November, G20 leaders must empower a truly independent International Monetary Fund to require real financial reforms – for all nations, regardless of their relationship with the IMF.
The Daily Reckoning
Looking back: abandoned principles and misguided policies

A retrospective on the economic history of the past fifty years.
To stay relevant, the UN must compete

The United States is increasingly taking important issues – such as financial stability, climate change, and nonproliferation – outside the UN system.
Brazilian President Lula: BRIC countries must forge a transparent system of global governance

Brazilian President Lula weighs in on the BRIC summit where Brazil, Russia, India, and China showed they are committed to building a joint diplomatic and creative approach to world issues.
Brazil's President Lula: The G-20's role after economic crisis

The group weathered this challenge, but the developing world needs more say in heading off future ones.
Global financial reformers must heed Asia's clout

The IMF and the World Bank are becoming relics of a bygone era. They are too narrowly focused on Europe and America.
A financial new world order?

Bush says reforms must improve, not fetter, the free market; Europeans hint at more robust intervention.
America as superpower: shaken, not deposed

Some see demise, but others cite enduring signs of US power.