Many banks,he says, are going to need additional capital to deal with bad loans and heavy debt.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

A lot of these people in the Mexican banks thought, well surely there will be a bailout if something bad happens; the government will pay for it, so let's run with it.

这使大批墨西哥银行家认为,如果出现危机,政府必定会出资援助,所以我们放心干吧 政府会买单的

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But the FSLIC wasn't; it was sleeping at the switch, so it allowed banks in the United States -it was primarily Savings and Loans who did this -to make bad loans and they were playing this moral hazard game.

但是FSLIC没有如此,制度变换初期他们对一切放任不管,于是这让美国的银行...,主要指的是那些储蓄贷款机构...,发放不良贷款,他们开始参与这项充满道德风险的游戏

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Banks took big losses as they traded mortgage-related securities that went bad.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

U.S.officials pressed for rules requiring banks to keep larger reserves to cope with bad loans.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Strauss-Kahn said the pace of global recovery depends significantly on the effectiveness of measures to dispose of bad loans currently on the books of major banks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Geithner said government and private investors will work together to purchase bad loans from banks, so-called "toxic assets", so the banks can resume lending and get the economy going again.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20