"How were German's gold reserves created, and what role has gold played as a means of payment over time? ... The Deutsche Bundesbank's project to bring substant

"Gavin demonstrates that Bretton Woods was in fact a highly politicized system that was prone to crisis and required constant intervention and controls to conti

War is a costly business and in 1939, Germany was almost broke with its economy overheating and heading for runaway inflation. Hitler needed hard foreign curren