What neither Friedman nor anyone else anticipated in 1998 was that the first serious downturn following the advent of the euro would coincide with the mother of all financial crises. Runs by panicked investors have required central banks to undertake unprecedented lender-of-last-resort operations.
amp#160;amp#160;amp#160; 弗里德曼和其他人在1998年所没有预料到的事情是，欧元诞生以后第一次严重的衰退与所有金融危机之母发生在同一时间。恐慌不已的投资者撤走资金，迫使各国央行采取前所未有的最后借贷者的行动。大量的贷款损失已经迫使采用昂贵的银行注资行动。