美联储对新兴市场央行的支持是令人瞩目的，因为这些国家大部分都没有从国际货币基金组织（IMF）贷款，在20世纪90年代的亚洲金融危机后，IMF被看做是美国霸权的工具。
The Fed’s support to emerging-market central banks was remarkable, because most of these countries chose not to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, which, in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis in the 1990’s, had come to be considered an instrument of US hegemony.