In this sense, the term alchemy could be applied to pre-Keynesians like US Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, whose prescription at the start of the Great Depression was to “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate” in order to “purge the rottenness out of the system.” It could also be applied to those today who favor returning monetary policy to the pre-1914 gold standard.
从这个意义上来说，点金术这个词适于凯恩斯主义之前的人，比如美国财政部长安德鲁·梅隆（Andrew Mellon），在大萧条开始时他的方案是用“清算劳工、清算股票、清算农民、清算房地产”来“清洗系统中腐烂的东西。”此举也适用于那些喜欢回到1914年前金本位货币政策的人。