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Welcome back to the Corporate Report Podcast.

I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com coming to you as always from the sunny

climbs of Western Japan here on the fourth day of December 2020.

You're tuned into episode 390 of the Corporate Report podcast, Bretonwoods 2.0.

Now it should be a fairly non-controversial observation that when the managing director of the International

Monetary Fund uses the current crisis and the resulting economic social and political upheaval

to take to the global virtual pulpit that has been afforded to her and invoke the

memory of Breden Woods,

the historically literate amongst us

realize that we in the general public

are being prepared

for a world historical transition.

Reflecting on the dramatic change in the world over the last year,

I paid a visit to Breton Woods in New Hampshire,

where 44 men signed our articles of agreement in 1944.

Our founders faced two massive tasks to deal with the immediate devastation caused by the war and to lay the

foundation for a more peaceful, more prosperous post-war world.

At the conclusion of the conference,

John Maynard Keynes captured the significance of international cooperation as hope for the world.

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