The job of the new Federal Reserve vice-chair of supervision is clear: keep the financial system stable. The harrowing experience of the 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the costs of failing to do this task properly. The much more successful navigation of the coronavirus pandemic by big US banks — supported by monetary largesse — showed, by contrast, what can be gained from stricter regulation of a sector that is so fundamental to the wider economy. For that reason former Treasury official Sarah Bloom Raskin is a welcome choice by president Joe Biden for the nomination.
美聯儲(Federal Reserve)新任監管副主席的職責很明確：保持金融體系穩定。2008年金融危機的可怕經歷展示了未能妥善執行這項任務的代價。與此形成反差的是，美國各大銀行在慷慨貨幣政策的支持下，更為成功地應對了新冠疫情，表明對一個對整體經濟至關重要的行業進行更嚴格監管可以帶來什么收獲。出于這一原因，美國財政部前官員薩拉?布魯姆?拉斯金(Sarah Bloom Raskin)獲得喬?拜登(Joe Biden)總統對這一職位的提名是可喜的。