Sometimes, financial news can be hard to understand. 有时候,金融消息会变得很难理解。
Here, a former official of Goldman Sachs investment bank explains what his group did before the financial crisis. 这里有一位高盛投资银行的官员解释到他的组织在金融危机之前是怎样运作的。
Josh Birnbaum was involved in synthetic C.D.O.s. Josh Birnbaum被卷入了合成抵押债务契约。
These are really financial bets on whether some asset will gain or lose value. 这些真正的金融投注在于一些资产是否能赚到钱或会失去它的价值。
They are at the heart of the government's case against Goldman Sachs for misleading investors. 它们是政府阻止高盛投资银行误导投资者案例的核心。