The government will use as much as $100 billion from an existing fund set up to rescue the ailing financial sector to provide guarantees and low interest loans to those willing to purchase these assets.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The Fed is taking on a serious risk in doing this because these assets that it takes on in exchange for Treasury securities could fail.

美联储这样做很有风险,因为这些他们作为国库证券交换来的,资产可能是个烂摊子。

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What was happening was, these banks were not being watched carefully enough; their capital requirements were not enough for the kind of assets they were investing.

当初是因为,对这些银行监管不力,它们的资本水平没有达到,投资这类资产的要求

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Investors have been reluctant to buy up these questionable bank assets because of the high amount of risk involved.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

If you look at the behavior of groups of active managers and the dispersion of returns, I think it gives you some idea of what the efficiency is with which assets in these individual assets classes are priced.

如果观察一下主动管理型的基金经理们,和他们的投资收益分布,我想它会告诉你一些信息,哪些资产是有效定价

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He said the Treasury Department now has the authority to block or seize any assets, accounts or securities under U.S.jurisdiction held by these organizations or anyone acting on their behalf.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Analysts say by including private investors in the new initiative the government will be able to better evaluate the true value of these troubled assets and investors will have a stake in making a profit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23