"What is good collateral for a sovereign government? Good collateral is sound policy, and therefore that is a very strong step in the right direction,"
VOA: standard.2009.04.22
When you mortgage a property that means that you offer the property as collateral for a loan.
当你通过抵押贷款购买一项财产意味着,你需要抵押这项财产的所有权以获得贷款
The Fed is effectively just saying we'll take those assets as collateral for loans to you.
美联储有效率地说,我们将把那些资产视为你们贷款的抵押品。
Now Mr. Milton took some risks when he separated himself from his cash and lent money to his clients, or lent more money to his clients than the collateral, the gold, was actually worth. And the motive for that risk, of course, the motive for that investment, was the expectation of a profit.
但是弥尔顿先生却冒着把自己和他的现金,也丢了的风险,或者借出去的钱比担保财产还要多,他这么投资的动机是,希望获得收益。
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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