The Fed, in Greenspan’s view, had a responsibility not only to fight inflation but also to create a prosperous, entrepreneurial society, and he sought to achieve that dual mandate – with high employment as important as stable prices – during the high-tech boom of the late 1990’s. Unique among his Republican peers, after 2001 he spoke – quietly in public, but loudly in private – against the Bush administration’s feckless fiscal policies.
格林斯潘认为，美联储不但有责任抗击通胀，也有责任创造繁荣的、具有企业家精神的社会，而他也在20世纪90年代末高科技泡沫期间致力于这一双重使命——高就业和价格稳定同样重要。与他的共和党同侪不同，2001年后他反对小布什政府不负责任的财政政策——在公开场合，他保持沉默，但私下里，他大声反对。