Talk:International monetary system/Archives/2013

Good article?

This should be nominated as a good article - Alice (talk) 04:04, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

• A few quick comments (and see WP:GACR for GA criteria)
  • Lead unformatted (no bolding of title)
  • First image uncaptioned (is it just decorative, or logo of something, or ...?)
  • Intro needs links (eg Bretton Woods)
  • Copyediting needed - two missing apostrophes in 1870-1914 section, non-standard naming of World War I (and unlinked), last sentence of section has a spelling mistake, an informal "wasn't", and a different rendering of WWI.
  • Is it about the world, or Europe/N.America? "The world benefited..."- references? Examples given are two European groups.
• Haven't read the rest (makes my head spin!), but it looks as if it needs a bit more work before a GA nomination. PamD (talk) 22:36, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Pam. I added a reference for the opening sentence of the 1870-1914 section. The world economy was euro-centric in that period and its fair to say that colonies and other trading partners benefited economically from the close integration and greater trade it facilitates with millions being lifted out of subsistence agriculture. The article makes increasing references to non European countries as it progresses.FeydHuxtable (talk) 10:09, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

query

"During WWI countries had abandoned the gold standard, and most returned to it only briefly -" is that many, most or every? ϢereSpielChequers 12:46, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

thanks for the query, its every countries except the US according to the accounts i've read, have added this to the article and more specific details are in the gold standard main article. FeydHuxtable (talk) 17:32, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Historical Overview

Great new section and great pics. But there so many that at least with IE it causes probelms with the text display. If we want all those pics maybe we could make a montage as per Rio de Janeiro? FeydHuxtable (talk) 12:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

(For reference, it refers to this revision)

You’re too kind… (and thanks for your further elaboration!)

Good point about the pictures being a bit over-the-top – I’ve made a montage at File:International money montage.jpg and added it to the page; how do y’all like it?

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 15:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Im loving it, bang on the money! FeydHuxtable (talk) 16:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Manmohan Singh pic

Not sure what the issue is with this pic? Firstly, the rules on OR are relaxed on pics so sources arent necessarily required. However until recently there was a source on the article from the Indian Times talking about the impact Singh had at the G20. Or here's a link to the Financial Times where arguably the worlds no 1 financial journalist Martin Wolf says there is no one he respects more than Mr Singh. That said if anyone doesnt like the image, ive no issue with an alternative being used. It would be nice if it maintains the visual balance of the article, and to help reflect the shift of financial power away from the West it these past few decades it would be good if it could relate to a Bric country. A pic of Zhou Xiaochuan would be especially nice if one is available. But please dont remove the image without replacing it and thus spoiling the ascetics of the article! FeydHuxtable (talk) 16:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

The issue is that the picture is out of place. The section is on the call for new Bretton Woods, and I couldn't find a single article on Mr. Singh calling for it. If Mr. Singh's picture is justified, then I don't see why a picture of Mr. Kim Jong-il is not also justified. Besides, you are right, It'd be better to have a picture of someone from a country that has made a real impact during this crisis, or at the 2008 G20 summit, or who actually called for a new Monetary System, instead of this arbitrarily placed image. By78 (talk) 23:23, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Per your suggestion, I tried to find an image of Ma Xiaochuan, but I couldn't find any that did not have restrictive copyright. I have instead displaced the picture of Mr. Singh with a picture of Mr. Hu (the president of PRC). However, I do believe it's just as approriate, if not more so, to have a picture of Mr. Sarkozy instead, as he was the most vocal in calling for reforms of the International Monetary Systems. If not, a picture of Gordon Brown would also be fitting, as he called for reforms as well. The point is, for this section, we ought to post pictures of IMPORTANT world leaders from countries that actually called for reforms. Just my two cents. By78 (talk) 23:45, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, the Mr. Hu pic looks good. As there was already a pic relating to China, Id rather have kept the M Singh pic, but Im not going to edit war. As long as no one tries to add a pic for Frenchman! FeydHuxtable (talk) 15:56, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

I would also prefer the picture of a PM who is an economist as well for IMS page.Bcs09 (talk) 09:23, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

A new image of G-20 world leaders has been added. Seems more suitable rather than single leaders.Bcs09 (talk) 17:07, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

potential resource

When Currencies Collapse; Will We Replay the 1930s or the 1970s? by Barry Eichengreen in January/February 2012 Foreign Affairs issue; excerpt ...

Today, more than at any time in recent memory, analysts and investors are voicing doubts about the stability of the dollar and the euro and the international monetary system that depends on them. Consider first the dollar. Faith in its reliability was seriously undermined last summer when the debt-ceiling imbroglio in the United States revealed a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the political parties and raised concerns about the capacity of U.S. policymakers to put the country's financial house in order. Foreign investors, who hold slightly less than half of all marketable U.S. Treasury debt, saw the crisis as proof that members of Congress would rather let the country default on its obligations than compromise on their own partisan objectives. And foreign governments were spooked. As the debate reached a peak, Chinese officials lectured Washington on the need to act responsibly, China's state-run news agency disparaged the negotiations as a "madcap farce of brinkmanship," and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin characterized Americans as "living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar."

See United States public debt and United States Treasury security 99.181.131.214 (talk) 02:51, 13 January 2012 (UTC)