The people were booted out and given either a drab apartment several kilometers away or payment worth a fraction of the going market rate for their current home.

人们从自己的房子里被赶出来，分得几公里外的一处简陋的公寓，或是按当时的市场利率得到一部分补偿。

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Signs of strain are everywhere. In September the Department of Education reported that in 2009 the default rate, which is defined as non-payment for 270 days, had reached 8.8%.

这种紧张气氛的迹象无处不在，9月教育部报道了2009年的违约率达8.8%，也就是说270内未能完成付款的比率。

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That has undoubted appeal for policymakers in countries where floating-rate mortgages expose borrowers to the risk of payment shocks as rates rise.

对于那些采取浮动利率抵押贷款，利率增加时贷款人面临支付成本上升的国家的政策制定者来说，这无疑具有吸引力。

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On the student loan, I may be very ignorant about this, but if you reduce the rate of payment, doesn't that make the loan over time more expensive for the student loan applicant?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

But the most common mistake of people who have trouble paying off student loans is failing to understand what they're getting into, even overlooking details as basic as the interest rate and the consequences of missing a payment.

WSJ: A Lesson in Finance

The banks have been hit by scandal, including attempts to rig the Libor interest rate and the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.

BBC: Barclays and RBS disclose number of staff paid ?1m-plus