At the start of this century the journalist Bob Woodward anointed Alan Greenspan as “the symbol of American economic pre-eminence”. Ben Bernanke must pray that he never attracts that kind of praise. As a student of business cycles, the current chairman of the US Federal Reserve knows all about reputational bubbles – and few have burst more convincingly than Mr Greenspan’s.
在本世紀初，記者鮑勃•伍德華(Bob Woodward)將艾倫•葛林斯潘(Alan Greenspan)譽爲「美國經濟昌盛的象徵」。班•柏南奇(Ben Bernanke)一定要祈禱自己永遠不要受到這種讚譽。作爲商業循環的研究者，這位美聯準(Fed)現任主席對名譽的泡沫瞭如指掌——沒有比葛林斯潘名譽掃地更有說服力的了。
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