As a result, people assumed that the problem of monetary stability had been solved, and that they could pile up assets and then use them as collateral to borrow ever-larger sums. But the large-scale destruction of financial assets because of underlying uncertainty about the extent of losses in the wake of the sub-prime crisis, and especially after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, shook that assumption.
结果，人们认为货币稳定问题已经得到了解决，他们可以积累资产，然后将这些资产作为抵押物来借越来越多的钱。但是，在次级抵押贷款危机爆发之后，因为损失程度暗含的不确定性，特别是在雷曼兄弟破产之后，金融资产大规模的毁灭粉碎了人们的这一看法。