So when they spoke on the sidelines of the dinner, they had the chance to exchange war stories.
When Franco first went on the attack in 1936, Republican Spain had one of the biggest gold stocks in the world, gold which the government promptly arranged to exchange for war materiel.
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Bretton Woods, which was set up at the end of the Second World War had fixed exchange rates which lasted until the early 1970s.
In a series of papers Michael Dooley, David Folkerts-Landau and Peter Garber at Deutsche Bank have argued that the present arrangements resemble a revived Bretton Woods, the system of fixed exchange rates after the second world war.
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Some leaders have urged the meeting to begin the process of launching a new global agreement to stimulate prosperity, similar to the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944 that created the post-war system of fixed exchange rates and established the IMF and the World Bank.
After World War II, it became customary to exchange not only cards, but gifts of chocolate and flowers.
The enthusiastic collaboration among the wider community of 17th Century astronomers, across nations and continents, continuing to exchange astronomical observations even when their countries were at war with one another, is in stark contrast to Flamsteed's relentless withholding.
South Korea, he points out, opened its first exchange in 1956, only three years after the Korean war.
With the end of the Cold War, the threat of a massive bipolar nuclear exchange has, thankfully, abated.
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But he does not appear to think, as many do, that this was because they thought Srebrenica could not be held and that it would be better to lose it in war than give it up at the peace table in exchange for land elsewhere.
Whether accused of doling out seats in the House of Lords in exchange for donations to the Labour Party, or taking the country to war based on questionable intelligence, Blair emerged unscathed--with not a single electoral defeat to his name.
The post-war period of financial repression occurred under the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was marked by tight capital controls.
And he has been seeking to change American policy towards Iraq by trying to unite the fractured Gulf war coalition behind a new sanctions regime, which would reduce economic sanctions in exchange for toughening the control of exports with military uses.
Instead, suffering from a lack of what we want with no avenue to get what we want, we go to war in order to forcibly take that which would otherwise reach us through voluntary, mutually wealth-enhancing exchange.
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