were forced to read neg on in one thousand nine hundred ninety one what do you explain that john maynard keane's idea for a bank or. keynes wanted to establish a new super national. currency which you would call bank or which he hoped would eventually come to rival the u.s. dollar and supplant its global role i should emphasize that keynes would never have proposed such a thing or his government wouldn't have allowed him to if he and his government had felt that there was an opportunity for reestablishing sterling as a major international reserve currency but they knew that there was and the second best alternative for them was to find a way to contain the power of the united states by limiting the influence of the u.s. dollar now having suffered a huge financial crisis and can the one during the great depression do you think we will soon revisit the idea of ideas discussed at bretton woods. well interestingly enough back in two thousand and nine the chinese central bank governor joe produced a statement that got enormous attention saying that bretton woods had really been a terrible mistake we