自由意识派，都支持"金本位"。当了主席之后，就跟他们同流合污了。现在退休了，又开始说实话了。
Alan Greenspan: Ron Paul Was Right About The Gold Standard
As John Rubino eloquently puts it, "when
the history of these times is written, former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan
will be one of the major villains, but also one of the greatest
mysteries. This is so because he has, in effect, been three different
people." Greenspan started his public life brilliantly, as a libertarian
thinker who said some compelling and accurate things about gold and its
role in the world. An example from 1966: "This is the shabby secret
of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is
simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way
of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists'
antagonism toward the gold standard."
Yet everything changed a few decades later when Greenspan was put in
charge of the Federal Reserve in the late 1980s, instead of applying the
above wisdom, for example by limiting the bank's interference in the
private sector and letting market forces determine winners and losers,
he did a full 180, intervening in every crisis, creating new currency
with abandon, and generally behaving like his old ideological enemies,
the Keynesians. Predictably, debt soared during his long tenure.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-20/alan-greenspan-ron-paul-was-right-about-gold-standard
