The history of mortgages is that they have generally over time gotten more easy on loan-to-value ratio and also on maturity.

从抵押贷款的历史来看,随着时间推移,抵押贷款,对于贷款价值比和期限越来越宽松

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Part of--this is the--it's not loan-to-value ratio-- this is the ratio of mortgage debt to personal consumption expenditure.

这并非贷款价值比率的问题,一定程度上,是抵押率的问题,即负债对个人消费支出的比率

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A mortgage lender doesn't want to lend more than the property is worth because that would mean a loan-to-value ratio over one.

抵押贷款的贷方,借给你的钱不会超过财产本身价值,因此贷款价值比率就会大于1

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There are lots of costs, so you want to have a loan-to-value ratio, which is sufficiently low, that the collateral will cover the value of the loan.

那是一大笔开销,因此你要设定一个足够低的,贷款价值比率,使得抵押物价值能够为贷款提供保障

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There's maybe about three trillion dollars worth of stuff backed by mortgages out there Well, as you've seen, these have produced crisis of confidence and I don't think we've heard the last of it.

现在大概有价值三万亿美元的有抵押证券,在市场上流通,就像你所看到的那样，这些证券已经导致了,市场信心的丧失，而且我个人认为这还完全没有结束。

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