If we push interest rates up, Greenspan thought, millions of Americans would become unemployed, to no one’s benefit. If interest rates were allowed to fall, these extra workers would be employed building houses and making things to sell to all the people whose incomes come from the construction sector.
格林斯潘认为，一旦利率上调，数以百万计的美国人将丢掉饭碗，这对大家都无益处；而如果利率被允许下调，就会增加房地产行业的就业机会，建好的房屋又可以销售给那些收入来自于建筑领域的人。