As poorly as the Fed performed in the years preceding the Lehman Brothers’ collapse, it performed splendidly well afterward, by flooding the markets with liquidity to break the panic. So, too, did the Bank of England, though it was a bit slower to react.
美联储在雷曼兄弟倒闭的前几年中表现拙劣，而在此之后表现特别出色，向市场注入大量流动性遏制了恐慌。英格兰银行亦然，尽管其反应速度稍慢一些。