Default rates are shooting up and valuation of securitized subprime mortgages have crashed and it's throwing turmoil all over the financial community.

违约率飞速上升,对于次级抵押贷款的估值也失效了,这还导致了整个金融系统的混乱

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Well, one of the things they've been investing them in are subprime mortgages.

其中一个投资方向,就是次级抵押贷款

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These mortgages were given out to people that couldn't afford them and today you have what you call subprime mortgages--subprime paper They issued against this paper stuff called mortgage-backed security. They securitized them and these things are all floating around now.

我们发放这些抵押贷款给那些买不起房子的人,所以现在你们看到了一种你们叫做,次级抵押贷款的金融工具--次贷票据,他们把这种票据叫做,有抵押证券，他们把有抵押证券证券化,这些证券现在在市场上被多次交易，广为流通。

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Subprime" Refers to the mortgages that were made mostly over the last ten years or so to subprime borrowers.

次贷"指的是,大约在最近10年中,提供给次级借款人的,住房抵押贷款

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Subprime refers to mortgages, which is not the subject of today's lecture, but a subprime mortgage is a mortgage issued to a borrower who is not considered prime--not a good risk.

次贷指的是次级抵押贷款,这不属于今天的讨论范围之内,次级抵押贷款是发放给特殊借款人的,他们不是优质客户,也就是说风险较大

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