Did you read Noam Chomsky's new article?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/10–4

Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals – the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky