Welcome to "The Bretton Woods System Explained in Five Minutes"! In this video, we'll be providing a brief overview of the Bretton Woods system, a monetary system established at the end of World War II that shaped the global economy for decades.

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The Bretton Woods system was created in 1944 at a conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where delegates from 44 countries gathered to rebuild the international monetary system in the aftermath of the war. The system was based on the idea of fixed exchange rates, with the US dollar serving as the reserve currency and other currencies pegged to it.

Under the Bretton Woods system, central banks around the world were required to maintain fixed exchange rates with the US dollar and were allowed to buy and sell US dollars to maintain these rates. The US, in turn, agreed to maintain the value of the dollar by holding gold reserves at a fixed price.

The Bretton Woods system played a significant role in the global economy until the early 1970s, when increasing government spending and trade imbalances led to the collapse of the fixed exchange rate system. In the decades since, the global economy has operated under a system of floating exchange rates, with currency values determined by market forces.

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