Many banks and hedge funds had borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars to buy these securities, which were now "toxic" because their value was unknown and no one wanted to buy them.
多くの銀行や巨大ファンドが数千億ドルを借金してこれらの証券を買っており、その価値が不明で誰も買おうとしないために今や「毒物」となった。