Economists say India's purchase of 200 tons of gold shows that the country has come a long way in the two decades since it was on the verge of defaulting on its international debt.

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The housing sector in the United States, you might say, is completely different from municipal bond insurers; but when the housing sector starts going down, people start defaulting on their mortgages.

你可能会说,美国房地产,是与市政债券保险公司完全不同,但是当房地产行业开始衰退,人们就开始对抵押贷款违约

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Troubled banks then who have this the problem banks have now is they have these securitized mortgages that they've bought and the homeowners are defaulting on the mortgages now.

于是出于困境中的银行,现在银行的问题在于,他们持有自己买的,证券化按揭贷款,而房屋持有者却,对抵押借款拖欠。

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For example, if there's a homeowner who you've lent money to and the homeowner is defaulting on the mortgage, the homeowner might wreck the house -that happens all the time -or they might steal things from it.

比如,如果你贷款给一个房主,但是他违约不还贷,并可能在房子里搞破坏,这种事情经常发生,他们还可能会从房子里偷东西

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