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October 21, 2008

China
The end of Bretton Woods 2?

In late 2004, Nouriel Roubini and I wrote that “the tensions created [by the Bretton Woods 2 system] are large, large enough to crack the system in the next three to four years.” In a 2005 Wall Stre…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

April 12, 2024

Health
Women This Week: Heightened Levels of Malnutrition for Women and Children

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers April 6 to April 12.

A girl carries her belongings in a container on her head in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 2, 2023.
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

January 2, 2005

United States
Bretton Woods Two Lives

The Fed has started to tighten, Greenspan said anyone who has not hedged their interest rate risk desires to lose money. Yet higher short-term rates have not led to higher long-term rates. In the j…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

May 13, 2019

Global Governance
How the Paris Agreement Model Could Help Ward Off the Next Mass Extinction

Biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history. A bankrupt biosphere, however, is not yet destiny. To reverse course, nations must take a page from the Paris Agreement on climate …

A boy carries a dog as he stands after a Peruvian police operation to destroy illegal gold mining camps in the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios on July 14, 2015.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

October 3, 2006

Monetary Policy
Bretton Woods 2 lives

The IMF released its data on global reserve growth on Friday.   And – to no one’s real surprise – the IMF data indicated that there is one key reason why capital flows uphill in today’s global econom…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money