Right now the total value of single-family homes in the United States is about twenty trillion dollars and the market has been becoming increasingly speculative.

如今,美国家庭的,房产总值,接近2万亿美金,而且,市场变得越来越投机

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Then we have stately homes which is the big mansion houses

我们有豪宅，大的宅院式别墅，

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I've been working with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to create a futures market for single-family homes, which is sort of my connection to the futures industry.

我一直以来和芝加哥商业交易所合作,创建一个适合单一家庭的期货市场,这是我参与期货行业的一种方式

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Now suddenly, the word is that it's falling, so suddenly they don't want these homes, so the inventory of unsold homes has shot up; builders can't sell them and prices are falling.

忽然,房价开始暴跌,楼市无人问津,待售房屋存量急剧上升,建筑商卖不动房子,房价暴跌

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There's also commercial real estate, which is smaller than owner-occupied homes, but we own that indirectly too, as a people, through the stocks that we own and through the institutions we participate in.

除此之外还有商业地产市场,它比自有住房市场要小,但人们也可以间接持有商业房产,人们可以通过持有股份,及参加一些机构的方式来持有商业地产

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Actually, the automobile insurance is more important than the homeowners' insurance, even though homes are so much more valuable, because--I think that's because cars move and they drive around and they bump into each other.

实际上,尽管住宅要比汽车值钱的多,但是,汽车保险要远比,住宅保险重要,我觉得这是因为汽车是可以移动的,车主们开着车到处跑,容易相互碰撞

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What they mean by that is, if you're a builder and you have this place where you show off your model homes, how many people are coming by to look at your model homes today as potential buyers?

意思就是,如果你是建造商,你有地方展示样板房,预计今天会有多少潜在顾客,来看样板房

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