Their advice: Sell everything, and pile into gold and inflation-linked securities.

他们的建议就是：变卖一切资产，然后购买黄金及与通胀挂钩证券。

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In this crisis, institutions that bought up buckets of complex mortgage-linked securities found themselves facing huge losses as house prices fell.

在本轮危机中，随着房价下跌，买入大量复杂抵押贷款相关证券的机构发现自己面临着巨额损失。

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As the entities couldn't bear the burden for long, they had to sell mortgage-linked securities into a hostile, illiquid market, pushing down already depressed prices.

随着这些机构无法继续承担负担，它们不得不把抵押贷款相关证券在一个流动性不佳的市场上卖掉，进而使本已经低迷的价格进一步下跌。

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Try telling that to banks that have lost their shirts on top-notch mortgage-linked securities.

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Take Bank of America's Minimum Return Eagles (the name, predictably, is a tortured acronym--Equity Appreciation Growth LinkEd Securities).

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As well as being coaxed into reducing leverage, the banks may face pressure to ditch some of their illiquid assets, such as mortgage-linked securities and private-equity stakes.

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