Unfortunately, what we've seen recently is a kind of a bank run on the asset-backed commercial paper.

不幸的是,最近的情况是,有些银行开始运作资产担保商业票据

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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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An SIV is a company of a sort that invests in assets and they issue something like asset-backed commercial paper, but it's not a real company because it only exists as an organization sponsored by some bank.

IV类似从事资产投资的公司,同时也发行类似资产担保商业票据的证券,但它不是一家真正的公司,因为它只是由某家银行建立的一个组织

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