We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

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But then you come to the third part of this sort of triangular absurdity, and what you get to is big financial institutions with extremely well-paid individuals, in the presumably pure free market.

接着您提到了第三方,在这个怪诞的迷局中，您提到的是,大的金融机构,他们员工本身收入极高，在人们都认为,的纯市场经济机制下。

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Some Arab Sheikh just paid one hundred million pounds for that apartment-- that penthouse apartment-- in that building and the same Sheikh is ordering a Airbus for his-- one of these big Airbus airplanes-- for his personal plane and he's having it plated with gold leaf.

某位阿拉伯的酋长花了一亿英镑,买了那套公寓里的顶层套间,这个酋长还订了架空客,就是那种大型空客,作为私人飞机,还镀上了金叶子

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