I think it was because people were overselling investments and saying, there's no limit to this investment but the blue sky above.

我想这是因为,当时人们过度宣传投资产品,并宣称,投资收益无止境,如头顶的蓝天那么遥远

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A recent example of overselling: the National Association of Realtors has been running ads saying that home prices have always doubled every ten years.

举一个最近这方面的例子,全国房地产经纪人协会,投放了一则广告,内容是,在过去,房价每十年就能翻一番

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That's overselling because we're in a real estate crisis and home prices are falling and that's the kind of thing that makes some people upset.

这分明是过度吹嘘,我们身陷于房地产危机,房价在下降,令人非常沮丧

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