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The Bretton Woods Committee held their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss the global economic outlook. The committee is a group of policymakers, academics, and business, finance …

Michael Froman spoke at the Bretton Woods Committee annual meeting. He stressed the Obama administration’s position that protectionism does not work and that no one wins in a trade war. He a…

The Bretton Woods Committee held their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., to consider the global economic outlook. In this portion, panelists discussed globalization, multilateralism and th…

International financial diplomat William Rhodes talked about his book, Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons From the Front Lines of Global Finance, in which he looks at the current econom…

Assistant Secretary Shannon, President Vazquez, Secretary Rice and others addressed the 36th annual conference of the Council of the Americas on topics of creating jobs and building hope for…

Secretary O’Neill spoke about the evolution of many Western Hemisphere economies, the impacts of free trade relationships, and future trade relations in the hemisphere. Following his remarks…

Financial leaders spoke about trade within the Americas, the economic stability of the Western Hemisphere, and potential plans to extend free trade agreements throughout the hemisphere. Afte…

Panelists talked about the current economic crisis in the Asian stock markets and the causes of such a crisis. They also talked about steps that government and business could take to avoid a…

The committee reviewed the progress made in implementing a new administration strategy for responding to the third world debt problem, presented by Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady i…

The Senate Banking Subcommittee held a hearing on third world debt. This was the 2nd portion of that hearing.

The committee focused investigation on the third world debt crisis.