It was a freight and stagecoach company with a banking arm that made loans to miners, invested in property, and succeeded beyond Wells and Fargo's wildest dreams.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

So what banks offer is liquidity -the ability to borrow short even though the loans that are made are long-term.

而银行就提供了流动性,即接受短期存款,但可以发放长期贷款的能力

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It's going to be cancelled next year. I won't get my money back.' Loans must be made even if the debt will be cancelled, for the simple reason that the problem of poverty is a terrible and persistent problem.

因为在来年贷款会被解除，他们就收不回自己的钱了,即使是债务会被免除，人们也必须给人借贷，这仅仅,是因为贫困是一个长久存在的可怕问题。

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Roosevelt said the United States would guarantee repayment of loans made to Latin American countries.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

People knew that a lot of bad loans were being made or loans were being made to people who shouldn't be getting them.

人们知道现在银行有很多坏账产生,或者有很多多贷款再贷的时候就根本不需要人们来还它。

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Lower interest rates made euro loans a good deal at the time.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

You can argue that the government, largely in person of Barney Frank messes things up by encouraging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make a market of loans t really have been made in the first place.

您可以说政府，尤指巴尼，弗兰克本人,让事情变得糟糕,他鼓励房利美和房地美,为贷款创造市场,他们实属不应该，they，shouldn’,设计这样的贷款。

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Kenneth Feinberg, charged with reviewing the pay practices of large U.S.financial institutions, found that 17 banks made a total of $1.6 billion in payments to their top executives after receiving emergency loans from the government.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

So Savings and Loans, traditionally, have made most of their loans in the form of home mortgages.

所以传统的储贷协会,所发放的贷款多为购房抵押贷款

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Even though the deposits are short-term and the depositor can get the money at any time, the depositor is earning interest of a level that can only be made on long-term loans.

即使是短期存款,存款人可以随时取走存款,存款人也可获取仅从长期贷款中,才可得到的利息水平

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