The release of Alan Greenspan’s ghostwritten memoirs The Age of Turbulence has elicited charges that he was not such a great central banker after all. Stan Collender of National Journal sees the fingerprints of the White House on these attacks: Greenspan is harshly critical of George W. Bush’s administration, after all, and to attack the credibility of Republican ex-policymakers who are critical of Bush is standard counterpunching for it.
阿兰•格林斯潘由他人捉刀的回忆录《动荡岁月》出版以来，引发了认为他不是一位出色的央行行长的指责。 National Journal 的Stan Collender在这些攻击当中发现了白宫的影子：毕竟格林斯潘是布什政府的严厉批评者，而对一个对布什持批评态度的共和党前政策制定者的公信力发动攻击是不折不扣的报复手段。但对格林斯潘执掌美联储的生涯横加指责又有什么道理呢？