I get fire insurance on my house and so I behave badly: I deliberately burn the house down to collect on my insurance.

我为我的房子投了火险，于是我就：,我故意烧毁房屋,以便领走保险金。

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Now, if that happens these homes are the collateral to the banks for all these mortgages and we're going to have -and probably do have already--a recession.

如果那种情况发生了的话,这些房子是银行对房屋抵押贷款的唯一担保品,那我们将会面临,-很可能现在正在面临着--经济衰退。

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My house is a decayed house.

我的房子是一幢倾圮的房屋。

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Now suddenly, the word is that it's falling, so suddenly they don't want these homes, so the inventory of unsold homes has shot up; builders can't sell them and prices are falling.

忽然,房价开始暴跌,楼市无人问津,待售房屋存量急剧上升,建筑商卖不动房子,房价暴跌

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