许多中央银行家将美联储前主席阿兰·格林斯潘（1987年8月至2006年1月在任）视为始作俑者，认为是他创造了一个中央银行万能的假象，而这个假象在理论或者实际上都是站不住脚的。
Many central bankers portray former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (who served from August 1987 until January 2006) as the culprit, saying that he projected an image of central-bank omnipotence that is not warranted in theory or practice.