The two Leviathans have squeezed private firms into the riskiest ends of the mortgage market, such as subprime lending.

这两个庞然大物将私有公司挤压到了诸如次级贷款之类抵押市场最具风险的领域之中。

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And troubles in the subprime mortgage market may spread, inhibiting lending to borrowers in better standing, and thus feeding back into prices.

接着次优抵押贷款市场的问题可能会进一步扩大，阻止信誉良好的借贷者贷款，然后又会反馈到房价上。

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In the United States subprime lending was a relatively small bit of the mortgage market-itself just apart of America's financial markets.

在美国，次级贷款只在抵押信贷市场中占有相对较小的份额，而抵押信贷市场也只是美国金融市场的一部分。

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That involved more than 100 regulatory initiatives to force banks to abandon their traditional lending standards and create the subprime mortgage market.

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As the real estate market roared, FHA lending dropped to historic lows, only to rev back up once the subprime mortgage market bottomed out.

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The fragmented market structure of mortgage originators in the subprime-lending industry may also have contributed.

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