No it's not Davos — it's Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where over the weekend the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which George Soros set up in the wake of the financial crisis, held its second annual conference.
The real baddies are Bretton James and the securities firm he runs, Churchill Schwartz perhaps the least disguised fictional name ever.
This is filled, plausibly enough, by Josh Brolin, who is Bretton James, a Wall Street shark whose presence fatally muddles the good-v-bad intergenerational contest.
The electoral wards used to create the modified Peterborough constituency fought at the 2010 general election are: Bretton North, Bretton South, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye and Thorney, Newborough, North, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Walton, Werrington North, Werrington South, and West.
Indeed our key research question in this article is the following: what accounts for differences in strengthened governance processes between the newer proto-institutions as compared with multilateral agencies that are Bretton Woods institutions?
Or would it be, as Bretton Woods I was, the members of the then unofficial "united nations" — just 44 of them in 1944 but now an officially equal 192 (last time I looked) today?
Sometimes it's about Jake's feud with Bretton, at other times it's about Gekko's relationship with Winnie.
Since it was freed from the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates four decades ago, the dollar has mostly fallen in value against other rich-world currencies.
It is fitting that a new Bretton Woods is being discussed now.
An internal evaluation in 2008 by the bank found it to be flawed.Peter Chowla Bretton Woods ProjectChristina Chang CAFOD LondonDefence entitlementsSIR – It was disappointing that your memo to Barack Obama on curtailing entitlements lacked any reference to the military (Briefing, May 25th).
Damage assessment ReprintsWhen Bretton Woods failed, it was not immediately obvious what would replace it.
