克林顿总统在经济上取得显著成绩的关键之一是他背后有一位被人称之为“美国第二号人物”的“神秘人物”——美国联邦储备局局长格林司潘。 美国人之所以把格林司潘看作是美国影响力第二大人物,原因是因为他所主持的机构负责管理美国银行系统资金供应和信用的维护。他最重要的手段是控制“联邦资金利率”,也就是各银行间的短期借贷利率,由联邦储备局以买卖短期政府证券的方式调整。其间费用转嫁由借款人负担,影响及于一般借 One of the keys to President Clinton’s remarkable economic success is the fact that behind him there is a “mysterious figure” called the “second person of the United States,” the Secretary of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan. The reason why Americans think of Greenspan as the second most influential American is because the institutions he presided over are responsible for the management of the supply of the U.S. banking system and the maintenance of credit. His most important means is to control the “federal funds rate,” which is the rate of short-term borrowing among banks, adjusted by the Federal Reserve in the form of buying and selling short-term government securities. During the transfer of costs borne by the borrower, the impact and in general borrow