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David brancaccio
Seven Terms to Sound like a Bretton Woods Economist
Apr 11, 2011
Nearly sixty-seven years after an international conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire organized a new financial system, an unofficial...
Bretton Woods: If you tweet about your twitter feed does it make a... tweet?
Apr 11, 2011
Our tweets from Bretton Woods:...
At the New Bretton Woods, Sustainability is Inheritance
Apr 10, 2011
At a new Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire, I came across a new definition of sustainability. Typically the term sustainability is unders...
A Bretton Woods Conference for the Economy of the Future
by
Stan Alcorn
Apr 8, 2011
For the next three days, David Brancaccio and I are in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire with some high IQ folks who are looking at ways to make the...
Survey: What Makes the British Happy?
by
Stan Alcorn
Apr 5, 2011
Measuring happiness is no longer just for Bhutan; The United Kingdom is developing measures of "national well-being," and they're just finishing ...
Too Big To Fail is Too Hard To Resist
Apr 5, 2011
HBO has just released a preview for Too Big To Fail, a film based on the Andrew Ross Sorkin book of (of course) the same name....
The Fuzzy Future of Post-Fannie-Freddie Homeownership
by
Stan Alcorn
Mar 31, 2011
If you're thinking about buying a house, thank the U.S. government in advance. They guarantee more than 96% of new mortgages -- a guarantee that ...
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That's a Whole Lot of Renminbi!
Mar 23, 2011
If you happened to keep an eye on the currency markets, you may have noticed that it's been a banner week for China's renminbi. The Chinese...
Video: Barry Eichengreen on the Post-Dollar World
by
Stan Alcorn
Mar 23, 2011
As the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy rapped, it's all about the Benjamins. That's $100 bills, and there are more of them in circulation...
Tsunami-Sized Shock to Japan's Gross Domestic Product
Mar 22, 2011
Just days after the triple calamity in Japan -- from earthquake to tsunami to radiation -- I found
myself at an awkward turn in a conversation. I...