World currency pound sterling. The transition between pound sterling and United States dollar and its impact for central banks was described recently. In the period following the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944, exchange rates around the world were pegged to the United States dollar, which could be exchanged for a fixed amount of gold. This reinforced the dominance of the US dollar as a global currency. Since the collapse of the fixed exchange rate regime and the gold standard and the institution of floating exchange rates following the Smithsonian Agreement in 1971, most currencies around the world have no longer been pegged
What the World Needs Now Is Love (album) What the World Needs Now Is Love (album) What the World Needs Now Is Love is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Wynonna Judd, released in 2003 as her first album for Curb / Asylum Records. It produced four chart singles; the first of these, which was the title track, reached #14 on the "Billboard" country charts. It was followed by "Heaven Help Me" at #37 and "Flies on the Butter" (a duet with her mother and one half of The Judds, Naomi Judd) at #33. The fourth and final single, a cover of Foreigner's "I Want