Three months ago, I argued that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of expansionary open-market operations to keep total nominal spending constant in a downturn, and I was right. I was also right to say that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of central-bank guarantees of system stability, in order to prevent the risk of a collapse of the payments system from becoming a first-order consideration boosting the demand for cash to unnatural levels.
三个月以前，我就对上述的操作方式提出了自己的疑问，当时只有少数的经济学家赞同我的观点，现在看来，我是对的。我当时还指出中央银行保持系统的稳定性，防止金融支付系统崩盘，首要问题就是提供足够多的现金来支撑整个系统。