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1. 追求高收益率
What this country needs is a good 5% certificate of deposit. Instead the collapse in interest rates, and the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping them down for as long as possible, is driving people crazy─especially people who need to generate income from their investments.
美国这个国家需要的是收益率能够达到5%的定期存单。然而，这里有的只是利率的一降再降，以及联邦储备委员会(Federal Reserve)尽量将利率维持在低位的政策，这样的现状逼得人们愈加疯狂──对于那些需要从投资中获取收益的人而言尤其如此。
In these circumstances, people start to do really foolish things in the desperate hunt for higher interest rates. That includes taking on crazy amounts of risk, or investing in complex products they don't understand, in the hope of higher yields. The Fed is producing a bull market in scams, Ponzi schemes and associated rackets.
在此环境下，人们在绝望地寻找着更高的收益率，并为此开始犯下着实愚蠢的错误。这其中包括为争取获得更高的收益率而不惜承担极高的风险、或是投资那些他们毫不了解的复杂产品。美联储正在打造着一个各类阴谋、旁氏骗局和欺诈手段层出不穷的牛市。
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently warned about an epidemic of bogus high-yield 'corporate promissory notes' being marketed to investors by scam artists.
美国证券交易委员会(Securities and Exchange Commission)最近提醒投资者小心，目前市场中有一种由骗子发行的虚假高收益“企业本票”在大量传播。
The Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig highlighted the woes of those sold complex 'reverse convertibles,' a legal but complicated product with embedded risks. Eric Lewis, chief investment officer of Bedrock Capital Management in Los Altos, Calif., suggests that if you can't explain an investment to a friend, including what might go wrong, you should think twice.
《华尔街日报》(The Wall Street Journal)的杰森?茨威格(Jason Zweig)指出了那些卖出“反向可转债”这一复杂产品的投资者所面临的困境，“反向可转债”是一种合法的金融产品，不过此类产品结构复杂，其本身存在着潜在的风险。加利福尼亚州洛斯阿尔托斯(Los Altos)的资产管理公司Bedrock Capital Management的首席投资长埃里克?刘易斯(Eric Lewis)建议，如果你无法向自己的朋友解释清楚一项投资，包括这项投资可能会面临什么风险，那么你最好三思而行。
A high-yield bond fund such as the iShares High Yield Corporate Bond exchange-traded fund (HYG), which lends money to risky companies, sports a yield of about 5%. That's the maximum yield you can earn without taking on much more risk.
诸如安硕高收益率企业债交易所交易基金(iShares High Yield Corporate Bond exchange-traded fund)这样的高收益率债券基金为风险较高的企业提供贷款，这类基金的收益率约为5%。这是你在不承担过高风险的情况下能够挣到的最高收益率。
