People knew that a lot of bad loans were being made or loans were being made to people who shouldn't be getting them.

人们知道现在银行有很多坏账产生,或者有很多多贷款再贷的时候就根本不需要人们来还它。

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Saving and Loan Associations were making bad loans, especially in Texas, but in lots of other states as well -this is when Ronald Reagan was President.

当时储蓄贷款协会出现了不良贷款,尤其在德克萨斯州,不过在其它很多州也同时出现了...,当时的总统是罗纳德·里根

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So, they had an unfortunate incentive to make bad loans.

因此他们投机取巧不断放出不良贷款

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But the FSLIC wasn't; it was sleeping at the switch, so it allowed banks in the United States -it was primarily Savings and Loans who did this -to make bad loans and they were playing this moral hazard game.

但是FSLIC没有如此,制度变换初期他们对一切放任不管,于是这让美国的银行...,主要指的是那些储蓄贷款机构...,发放不良贷款,他们开始参与这项充满道德风险的游戏

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They ran with a lot of loans that turned out bad.

他们发放的大量贷款变为坏账

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