Plus, Eichengreen says, the U.S. has — until now — been "a good steward" of the dollar and the role it plays in the international economic system. The world has had faith in American institutions.

CNBC's Rick Santelli: The international economic system Trump is blowing up “has outlived its usefulness” Santelli: “Maybe what he's doing is lighting the firecracker that will finally end ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke Wednesday to international economists attending IMF and World Bank spring meetings in Washington D.C. this week, telling them the Trump administration wants ...

As international relations scholar Edward Fishman shows in Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, economic and political matters are now fundamentally intertwined. In our “age of ...

“The IMF and World Bank serve critical roles in the international system,” Bessent said in prepared remarks. “And the Trump Administration is eager to work with them — so long as they can ...

The chaos into which the world economy has been plunged by the economic war against the world launched by US President Trump is reflected in the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic ...

“No one doubts at this point President Donald Trump’s intention is to tear down the international economic system that the United States fostered since the end of the second world wa ...

The sessions addressed the current economic and geopolitical landscape at a time of rapidly accelerating global shifts and mounting challenges to the international economic system.

The EU therefore has a strong interest in responding to Trump’s actions by leading an effort to preserve an international economic system based on values, principles and rules. Moreover, only the EU ...

Plus, Eichengreen says, the U.S. has — until now — been "a good steward" of the dollar and the role it plays in the international economic system. The world has had faith in American institutions.

He has suggested that America basically needs another Bretton Woods-style meeting to reform the international economic system, which would include potentially helping the United States to devalue ...