尽管自全球经济危机以来所采取的积极货币政策引起了一些关于央行独立性的担忧，但巴里·艾肯格林（Barry Eichengreen）指出，为了政治问责而让步等于是“将洗澡水和婴儿一起泼出去 ” 。
Though the active monetary policy used since the global economic crisis has caused some to question central-bank independence, compromising it for the sake of political accountability would, as Barry Eichengreen has put it, be tantamount to “throwing the baby out with the bathwater.”