Bretton Woods, The Sequel?

Bretton Woods boosters assert that a global financial system needs global regulatory fixes. This claim deserves scrutiny. The fix that rightly commands widest support is moving the swap contracts between financial institutions onto centralized exchanges, so the collapse of one large player does not threaten others that entered into swaps with it. But this reform can be achieved with a minimum of international coordination. Countries can unilaterally ... Full Story »

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Oct. 20, 2008

An op-ed by a noted economic expert and journalist. Interesting thoughts about how far global cooperation will go in fixing this current economic crisis. So much is still up in the air: will the U.S. and Europe's effort to bail out succeed? Who are the world economic superpowers now? No one has answers, it seems, even the experts.

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