说话或写文章有时为了强调自己的某种观点或结论，可以先以本人或他人的口气提出一个问题，然后紧接着把自己的观点、见解说出来，即所谓自问自答，这种修辞方法叫做设问，例如：
How important is money? Ask the thousands of workers, striking for months to get a clause protecting their wages from a decline in the value of money. Ask the thousands who have lost their jobs because their employers were unable to borrow money. Ask the businesspeople whose companies have failed because the value of money was changing or the cost of borrowing money was prohibitive. Ask the stockholders, contemplating a substantial loss in their portifolio as a result of tight money policies. Ask the retired workers, struggling to stretch their fixed pensions or Social Security benefits to meet living costs; steadily rising because the value of money is falling. Ask the citizen whose government has been overthrown, partly because it debauched the nation's money.
Money and the consequences of monetary policies affect everyone — old and young, rich and poor, white and black, college graduate and grade school dropout.
——Money & Banking,
Kamerschen /Klise，6th Ed. p. 11
货币有多么重要?成千上万的工人这样问道，他们罢工几个月为的是订出防止因货币贬值而降低工资的条款；成千上万的失业者这样问道，他们的雇主无法举债支付工资；商人们这样问道，他们的公司因货币贬值或借贷成本太高而倒闭：股民们这样问道，他们算计着因紧缩货币政策使他们的有价证券遭受重大损失；退休的工人们这样问道，他们拼命要求增加固定的养老金，以应付他们由于货币贬值而日益上升的生活开支；那些推翻了政府的公民们也这样问道，其部分原因是他们的政府侵吞了这个国家的钱财。
货币和货币政策带来的种种后果影响着每一个人，年老的和年轻的，富裕的和贫穷的，白人和黑人，大学毕业生和小学辍学生，无一例外。
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