投资银行家们不断地在丢掉其轻松的饭碗，因为他们不能找出任何令人信服的方式定价其不良押贷款债务；否则，他们的公司本来可以利用由主权财富基金、私人股本集团、对冲基金等等拥有的而现在在场外的数万亿美元。
Investment bankers have been losing their cushy jobs because they could not figure out any convincing way to price distressed mortgage debt. Otherwise, their firms would have been able to tap the trillions of dollars now sitting on the sidelines, held by sovereign wealth funds, private equity groups, hedge funds, and others.