The problem is not that governments are unsure about what to do. The standard checklist of what to do in a financial crisis to avoid a deep and prolonged depression has been gradually worked out over two centuries: by Bank of England Governor Cornelius Buller in 1825; by the Victorian-era editor of The Economist , Walter Bagehot; and by the economists Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, among many others.
问题的关键不再于各国的政府知不知道应该怎么做，应对如何应对这场影响深远的金融危机，在过去的两百年内，我们的前辈先贤已经给出过了标准的答案：1825年的英国中央银行行长Cornelius Buller，《经济学人》维多利亚时代的总编辑白芝浩;以及当代的经济学家欧文·费雪, 约翰•梅纳德•凯恩斯,米尔顿·弗里德曼等等。