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Crypto’s Positive Use Cases: Privacy, Lower Costs and Financial Inclusion
Exploring a brief from the Bretton Woods Committee that highlights the positive use cases of crypto.
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Why the Bretton Woods Committee Is Optimistic About Blockchain Technology
Why the Bretton Woods Committee Is Optimistic About Blockchain Technology
“Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are joined by Bretton Woods Committee Chair William C. Dudley and Commonsense Ventures Co-founder Deepika Sharma for a...
Why the Bretton Woods Committee Is Optimistic About Blockchain Technology

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Bitcoin: Gold 2.0? Try Reserve Asset 3.0
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is beginning to send ripples through the global economy that could lead to a new monetary system.
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The Bretton Woods III Thesis
Is the world entering a new monetary order?
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America's Quiet Default
Seizing Russian holdings of American debt risks the role of the U.S. in the international system and opens the door to gold and bitcoin.
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Credit Suisse Strategist Says We're Witnessing Birth of a New World Monetary Order
"Money" will never be the same again after the Ukraine war, writes Zoltan Pozsar, and bitcoin may be a beneficiary.
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Bitcoin As Digital Gold?
Bitcoin as Digital Gold?
This Sunday, Aug. 15, will be the 50th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods currency system, when then-President Richard Nixon ended the dollar’s convertibility to gold...
Bitcoin As Digital Gold?

U.S. President Richard Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard in 1971.
50 Years After Bretton Woods, the US Dollar's Throne Is in Play
The greenback's share of world reserves is dropping steadily. The euro, yuan and bitcoin are all in the running to pick up the slack.
U.S. President Richard Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard in 1971.

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Crypto Won't Be Money Until IRS Accepts It for Taxes, Top Forex Strategist Says
The greenback has something else going for it cryptocurrencies don't: the bond market, notes Marc Chandler.
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A New ‘Bretton Woods’ Moment?
The IMF has said it’s time to re-evaluate the global economic order, but what does that really mean?
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