The collateral could be a number of things including mortgages--securitized mortgages that are risky and dangerous assets.

抵押品可是很多种东西,包括抵押贷款-证券化按揭贷款,这种有风险的，危险的资产。

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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

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Troubled banks then who have this the problem banks have now is they have these securitized mortgages that they've bought and the homeowners are defaulting on the mortgages now.

于是出于困境中的银行,现在银行的问题在于,他们持有自己买的,证券化按揭贷款,而房屋持有者却,对抵押借款拖欠。

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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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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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