Banks own a lot of long-term assets (like your mortgage) and hold a lot of short-term debt (which is cheaper than long-term debt).

银行持有很多长期资产(比如你的贷款)和短期债务(利率比长期的要低)。

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That would raise long-term concerns about the future quality of banks’ assets, but in the short term it would help to keep the economy ticking.

从长期看，此举会引发对银行将来资产的质量的担忧，但是它却可在短期内维持经济的运行。

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First, system-wide measures of borrowing and “maturity mismatch”, where banks use short-term funding to buy long-term assets.

首先，设立整个金融系统内的关于银行债务和“到期日”不匹配的衡量标准，这种不匹配表示银行用短期借贷来购买长期资产。

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The ratio of short term liabilities to short term assets has never been lower.

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Debt-service ratios are lower, and their liquidity ratio the ratio of short-term assets to liabilities is historically high.

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