The SIV really was a liability but it wasn't visible to investors investing in the bank.

结构投资公司本身就是债务,但银行的投资者们并不了解这点

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The shell structure which people hadn't even thought of.

壳状结构,之前人们从未想到过。

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Because Roman legal structures-- and they even said this in Roman laws-- if you're a judge and you have a rich man and a poor man in your court, of course you're going to decide for the rich man, because the poor man has incentive to cheat; he's poor. But the rich man already has money, he doesn't have any incentive to cheat.

因为罗马法律结构。。。,甚至罗马法律中就这么写着。。。,如果你是法官，一个穷人和一个富人，同时出现在法庭上，你当然会偏袒富人，因为穷人有欺骗的动机，贫穷;,而富人已经很有钱了，没有动机再去行骗。

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