This liquidity-preference, as Keynes called it, governed the price of financial securities and hence the rate of interest.

这种凯恩斯所谓的流动性偏好控制金融证券的价格进而控制利率。

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Some observers say there is a conflict of interest, as the issuers of securities pay the agencies to rate them.

一些观察员宣称存在一个利益冲突，证券发行者贿赂了估价的机构人员。

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Then there is the crazy idea that agencies cannot rate securities in which their leading shareholders have an interest.

于是，又一个疯狂的想法诞生了：评级机构不能对其大股东旗下的任何一支证券进行评级。

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Interest rate strategist Christian Carrillo with Societe Generale Securities calls the BOJ's decision weak and without purpose.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

"If the Fed goes out and buys longer-term Treasury securities, and buys them in significant amounts, what will happen is longer-term interest rates should come down.

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Unlike credit-oriented benchmarks, the primary risk in government securities is interest rates.

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The Fed is highly leveraged and faces the risk of significant losses on its portfolio of MBS and longer-term government securities once interest rates rise, as they must.

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