The Economist

英紙

先月末に発表されたブッシュ方策は市場対策ではなく、マイホーム取得者向け。経済対策というより、来年秋の大統領選に向けての政治的判断によるものと考えられる。
サブプライムローン破綻の原因：　A large part of the problem has resulted from people being lured into loans that they cannot afford. Opaque and complicated mortgage products offered seductively low initial rates that soon leaped up.
米国内の反応など：　The Democrats will be sure to dismiss all this as far too little, and rather too late.　The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, pledged that the Fed is ready to take "additional actions as needed" to provide liquidity to the markets.