There have been many changes in our mortgage institutions that might be part of the reason for the boom in home prices.

我们的抵押机构,已经发生了许多变化,这些变化可能是,房价高涨的部分原因

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The subprime crisis is happening today because home prices are falling and with falling home prices more subprime borrowers are failing to pay their mortgage.

次贷危机之所以会发生,时因为房屋的价格在下降,随着房屋价格的下降更多的次贷借款人,将会无法支付他们的贷款

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Saving and Loan Associations, by the way, no longer exclusively limit themselves to mortgage lending -either they do home improvement lending and auto loans and the like as well.

顺便提一下,储贷协会,现在也不仅限于发放抵押贷款,他们也发放住房装修贷款,及汽车消费贷款之类的

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