Alan greenspan, chairman of Amer-ica's Federal Reserve, is not a central banker who makes a habit of surprising the financial markets. He prefers to give Wall Street what it wants and, as a rule, to deliver roughly when it expects. Yet on January 3rd, he sprang on the markets a cut in interest rates of half a point, rather than the customary tweak (be it up or down) of a quarter-point, and moreover did it without waiting for the next scheduled meeting of the Fed's policy-making committee. This was a more dramatic easing of policy than the Fed's first response to the Russian debt debacle and the threatened collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, a financial crisis that Bilk Clinton described at the time as "the worst for 50 years".
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机译：美利坚合众国美联储（Fed）主席艾伦·格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan）并不是一个习惯于令金融市场感到意外的中央银行家。他更喜欢给华尔街想要的东西，并且通常按照期望的时间交付。然而，在1月3日，他在市场上降息了半个百分点，而不是习惯性地调整了四分之一点（上下调整），而且这样做没有等待下一次预定的会议召开。美联储决策委员会。这比美联储对俄罗斯债务危机的第一反应和1998年长期资本管理（Long-Term Capital Management）崩溃的威胁更为显着的宽松政策，比克·克林顿当时形容这是“ 50年来最严重的”金融危机。
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