In particular, a critical part of the gold standard was that individual national central banks set their own interest rates, with the aim of influencing the direction of capital movements. This became the central feature of the gold-standard world: a country that was losing gold reserves would tighten interest rates in order to attract money.
尤其是，金本位的一个重要方面是个体国家央行出于影响资本流动方向的目的自行确定利率。这也成为金本位世界的核心特征：流失黄金储备的国家会收紧利率以吸引货币。