Mises Wire
Author:
Adam Young
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From The Rude Awakening Newsletter (Wednesday, October 20, 2004): The IMF was conceived in July 1944 at an international conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. John Maynard Keynes and Harry White, according to the exhibition in the IMF’s main foyer, envisioned the IMF “helping each county set a fixed but changeable exchange rate for it