Member Views

What attacks in the Red Sea could mean for the global economy

The Bretton Woods Committee is pleased to Member Spotlight Hung Tran and his recent article in the Atlantic Council titled "What attacks in the Red Sea could mean for the global economy." 

What Does the Monetary Path Forward Hold for China, Russia and the US

BWC member Paul Sheard was interviewed on a recent CFA Society New York Compound Insights episode, "What Does the Monetary Path Forward Hold for China, Russia and the US".

They discussed details of monetary policy after busy weeks of significant developments.

What happens when development cooperation becomes development competition

Development cooperation has been a common thread running through the geography of aid agreements of recent years: from the Busan Partnership to the Paris Declaration and on to the Accra Agenda. If there is one thing that major donor countries have agreed on, it’s the need to cooperate, with developing country “partners” and with each other when it comes to the delivery of development assistance.

What It Will Take for the Fed to Tame Inflation

Developments in the US economy have recently been going the Federal Reserve’s way, with price pressures peaking even as economic growth and strong payroll gains have been sustained. But don’t be fooled: The task of getting inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target remains extremely daunting, both practically and politically.

What to Expect from the Rest of the Year

BWC member Mark Sobel writes for the OMFIF that "in view of favourable inflation prints and softer employment data, markets no longer anticipate a September hike" and that "expectations of a US recession or hard landing continue to fade."

What Venezuela Needs

The widespread electricity outages that hit Venezuela on Friday were yet another reminder of an already tragic situation that is getting worse by the day, taking the country ever closer to the line that separates a fragile state from a failed and collapsed one.

What We Can Learn Today From a 1944 Meeting That Reshaped the Entire Global Economy

Hurowitz is a writer, investor and publisher of the Octavian Report, the quarterly magazine of ideas

What's changed since the 2008 financial crisis in four charts

This month will mark the 10-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse. In many ways, the global financial system is better off as a result of the extraordinary stabilization measures taken after 2008. But some familiar risks are creeping back, and new ones have emerged.

Where Are We Going? Fundamentals of Defense Foresight

“Uncontrolled displacements of populations... are reversible thanks to a coordinated action of world governance, in particular through the IFIs resulting from the Bretton Woods treaty," writes BWC member Pierre Viaud in this month's issue of Revue Défense Nationale.

Whither Libra?

Every other day, it seems, we witness the launch of a new crypto (digital) currency.  Each combines a medium of exchange and a means of payment.