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A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn.
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Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics
International finance; financial markets; economic policy.
A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn.
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A fascinating intellectual history of monetary nationalism from the ancient world to the present exploring why, in its modern incarnation, it represents the single greatest threat to globalization.
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Over the past two decades, another form of economic exchange besides imports and exports has risen to a level of vastly greater significance and political concern: the purchase and sale of financial assets across borders.
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In this Financial Times op-ed, Manuel Hinds and Benn Steil argue that the Fed's loose monetary policy could jeopardize the dollar's position as the international standard of value.
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CFR's Benn Steil argues that other factors besides Sarbanes-Oxley contributed to financial flows away from the U.S.
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With all the discussion of currency wars, BNN looks at whether establishing a new global monetary order in the fashion of Bretton Woods is ever again possible with Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White and the Making of a New World Order."
The markets enjoyed another strong day thanks to strong economic data, reports CNBC's Seema Mody. Benn Steil, Council on Foreign Relations, and Kyle Harrington, Harrington Capital Management, discuss.
Amanda Lang and Kevin O'Leary take you inside the business world with their trade mark thought-provoking coverage. Benn Steil dicusses the significance of Bretton Woods and why he decided to write a book about the conference. Interview begins at 33:50.
