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A New Bretton Woods Moment? The IMF, Central Banks and CBDCs - The Industry Spread
Not many people will have heard Kristalina Georgieva’s recent speech, ominously titled “A New Bretton Woods Moment.” With the US election just around the corner, coronavirus cases spiking again in Europe, and Brexit still featuring heavily in the news cycle, you could be forgiven for missing it. Indeed, many people don’t even know all that much about the Bretton Woods Conference and the agreement that took place at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire between the 1st and 22nd of July, 1944. On the final day of that conference, delegates from 44 Allied nations signed an agreement that ... (full story)