We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.
我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用
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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