Money Matters: An IMF Exhibit -- The Importance of Global Cooperation

System in Crisis (1959-1971)

Credits
 

Conflict &
Cooperation
(1871 - 1944)

 Destruction &
Reconstruction
(1945 - 1958)		 The System
In Crisis
(1959 - 1971)		 Reinventing
the System
(1972 - 1981)		 Debt &
Transition
(1981 - 1989)		 Globalization and Integration
(1989 - 1999)		  
 
 

A Growing Economy Needs Growing Liquidity
(picture)© Corbis/Charles E Roth. (graph)Jared Schneidman Illustrations

 

 

Uhuru (Freedom)
© Corbis/UPI

 

 

The Foreign Exchange Famine
© National Geographic Society

 

 

The Dollar Glut
Courtesy of the Jack Knox Family

 

 

Triffin's Dilemma
(Uncle Sam with pump) IMF (Massoud). (Dollar Bill) Courtesy of the Jack Knox Family. (Triffin) © Corbis/UPI

 

 

The Incredible Shrinking Gold
Jared Schneidman Illustrations

 

 

Flight from the Dollar
Courtesy of London Evening Standard, Vicky [Victor Weisz], July 7, 1947

 

 

Bretton Woods System Collapses
© Corbis/UPI

 

 

 
A Growing Economy Needs
Growing Liquidity

Decolonization
and Development

 The Foreign Exchange Famine
     
The Dollar Glut The Incredible Shrinking Gold Supply Searching
for Solutions		 Bretton Woods
System Collapses