After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world's largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.
在雷曼兄弟破产后，许多全球最大的银行都曾担心出现最糟糕的情况，因为房地产泡沫的破裂暴露了它们在高风险贷款方面的投资。
The housing bubble peaked in July 2005.
房地产泡沫在2005年7月达到顶峰。
Now it is a symbol of the housing bubble.
现在又变成房产泡沫的象征。
The housing bubble was unique, and uniquely awful.
房地产泡沫是史无前例的，而且又是独特地可怕。
During the housing bubble, this ratio jumped to 4.2.
在房地产泡沫时期，此比值上升到4.2。
First came the dotcom bubble, then the housing bubble.
首先是互联网泡沫，然后是房地产泡沫。
So what was different about the housing bubble that followed?
那么紧随其后的房地产泡沫有什么不同之处吗？
Yet the housing bubble in Colorado's cities and suburbs burst earlier.
但是科罗拉多市及其郊区的房地产泡沫早些时候就开始破裂。
Whether that would have stopped the housing bubble is open to question.
这是否能防止房产产生泡沫并未可知。
Prices went up and up in recent years, before the housing bubble burst.
最近几年价格陆续上涨，直到房价泡沫戳破。
Some critics say that the Fed helped inflate the housing bubble with low interest rates.
有些评论家认为是美联储压低利率从而导致了房产泡沫。
It is no coincidence that the housing bubble started in the aftermath of the dotcom bust.
房地产泡沫始于互联网崩溃的余波，并非巧合。
Now the housing bubble has burst in turn, leaving the financial landscape strewn with wreckage.
现在轮到地产泡沫破灭了，使得整个金融业尸横遍野。
But Americans seem to have taken onelesson from the housing bubble, Girard said: Home prices can fall.
但美国人似乎吸取了房产泡沫的教训。吉拉德说，房产价格会跌。
In addition to low interest rates, another common explanation of the housing bubble is easy credit.
除了低利率，对房产泡沫的另一个普遍的解释是宽松的信贷政策。
Consumers, still burdened by the debt that they ran up during the housing bubble, aren't ready to spend.
依然背负着住房泡沫期间发生的债务的消费者是不愿意消费的。
Alan Greenspan failed to take any steps to rein in the housing bubble and arguably even promoted it.
格林斯潘当时未能采取任何措施以抑制房地产泡沫，甚至有理由说，他推动了泡沫的产生。
And the truth is I feel a little sorry for the teasing he has absorbed since the housing bubble burst.
但真相是，我觉得有点抱歉，因为房地产泡沫破灭后我一直取笑他的固执。
Around 80% of household debt is linked to mortgages and is thus intimately tied to the housing bubble.
大约80%的家庭债务是抵押贷款，因而跟房地产泡沫密切相关。
By contrast, the risks created by the housing bubble were strongly concentrated in the financial sector.
相比之下，房地产泡沫产生的风险则集中于金融业。
The housing bubble masked this new reality for a while, creating work in construction and related industries.
由于建筑业和相关行业创造了就业，房地产泡沫一时掩盖了这种现状。
It merely swelled the volume of mortgage-backed securities that lost value when the housing bubble burst.
它只是增加了房地产泡沫破裂时价值暴跌的抵押贷款证券的数量。
It's true that the housing bubble has popped, and consumers are saving more than they did a few years ago.
没错，就是因为房地产泡沫爆裂了，消费者比起前些年来增加了更多的储蓄。
One ill is the bursting of the housing bubble, which is partly the consequence of the subprime folly of past years.
房地产泡沫的迸裂是疾病之一，其部分原因是过去数年里的次级贷款愚行。
In its strongest form, the EMH denies that there could even be such a thing as the housing bubble (see here and here).
在其最强大的表现形式下，有效市场假说甚至否认存在房地产泡沫这件事。
But it will probably be a long time before the trade deficit comes down enough to make up for the bursting of the housing bubble.
但是把贸易逆差降到足够低的水平，低到可以弥补地产泡沫破裂带来的损失，是需要很多时间的。
During the housing bubble, brokers often earned more by selling high-cost loans, even if borrowers qualified for lower rates.
在房地产泡沫严重时，即使贷款人符合低利率的要求，房产中介也为了获得暴利而兜售高成本贷款。
In at least 14 major us metro areas, prices have fallen to 2003 levels - when the housing bubble was just starting to inflate.
至少美国14个主要地铁区的价格已回落到2003年水平—那时房产泡沬刚刚形成。
In at least 14 major us metro areas, prices have fallen to 2003 levels - when the housing bubble was just starting to inflate.
至少美国14个主要地铁区的价格已回落到2003年水平—那时房产泡沬刚刚形成。
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