But inflation targeting was never an obvious concept, and the financial crisis has discredited it. In 2003, Ben Bernanke, then a Governor of the US Federal Reserve, stated in a speech that many Americans considered inflation targeting “foreign, impenetrable, and possibly slightly subversive.”
然而，通货膨胀目标法却从未成为一种明确的理念，而且这次金融危机也使它丧失了信誉。早在2003年，时任一家美国联邦储备银行行长的伯南克就曾说，通货膨胀目标法“怪异、含糊，而且可能带点儿颠覆性”。如今这种感觉更强烈了。