Recently, however, there is a bit of a scandal regarding these rating agencies because they gave AAA ratings to some subprime securities.

但是,最近,出现了一点关于评级机构的丑闻,因为他们将一些次级证券评为AAA级

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Now, part of the problem is that the rating agencies were rating their securities that they were investing in as AAA, in many cases.

同时存在的一个问题是,信用评级机构对他们投资的,大部分债券都给予了AAA的评级

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Then, if you weren't quite Aaa, you were Aa and if you weren't quite Aa, you were A and then you could become Ba.

于是,如果你达不到AAA,你就会是AA,如果你达不到AA,你就会是A,再往下就有可能是BA

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The securities carried AAA ratings, and yet offered much higher yields than other AAA-rated, non-MBS securities.

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Well, the banks only held onto these bonds, the AAA tranches, because they really did think that they were AAA. That they were great investments.

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