To see the system at work, look at auction-rate securities, a sort of long-term debt invented in the 1980s.

要想知道该系统如何运作，只需看看拍卖利率证券即可，这是一种创造于上世纪80年代的长期债务。

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A second longer-term goal is to promote lending to small businesses by purchasing blocks of their debt, packaged into securities.

第二个长期目标是通过购买小企业的债务并打包成债券从而提高小企业的借贷额。

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Loans, and simple debt securities that are similar to loans, would be valued at their cost, provided Banks can show they are being held for the long term-as most Banks will try to.

假如银行能证明这些资产能被长期持有—象大部分银行试图做的，贷款和与其类似的简单债务证券将按成本计价。

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In support of Abenomics, the Bank of Japan this past Wednesday affirmed its own policies to buy long-term debt and securities.

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Mortgage REITs, which use short-term debt to buy longer-term mortgage securities, also are at the greatest risk if interest rates rise because that would increase their short-term borrowing costs and cut the value of the mortgage bonds that they hold, possibly resulting in losses and reduced dividends.

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Lynch defined net cash as cash and marketable securities minus long-term debt.

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