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After Coronavirus 'War,' Bretton Woods-Style Shakeup Could Dethrone the Dollar

Seismic shifts might be in the offing for the global monetary system — a phenomenon that historically has occurred in the wake of world wars.

By Bradley Keoun

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 8:23 a.m. Published Mar 27, 2020, 1:00 p.m.

OLD GUARD: The Bretton Woods gathering in 1944 entrenched the dollar’s near-century-long reign as the world’s dominant currency (Credit: U.S. Office of War Information in the National Archives, via World Bank).