long-term assets

基本解释

Banks own a lot of long-term assets (like your mortgage) and hold a lot of short-term debt (which is cheaper than long-term debt).
银行持有很多长期资产（比如你的贷款）和短期债务（利率比长期的要低）。
Though they may feel safe now, Buffett said those investors are holding "terrible long-term assets" that will not come close to matching the future gains of stocks.
巴菲特说：“尽管他们现在会感觉安全，像这样的投资者持有的“可怕的长期资产”，这些资产将来收益将不能和投资股票相提并论。
In fact, deposits are not perfect either: they too can suddenly evaporate (just ask Northern Rock) and they suffer from a maturity mismatch with long-term assets such as mortgages.
事实上，储蓄也并不完美：他们太容易突然消散（这可以问北岩银行），并且他们与长期资产如抵押贷款确实没有关联。

Secondly, the Fed holds long-term assets and short-term liabilities and yield curves generally slope upwards.
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When this happens, the Fed, rather than the banks, will take the balance sheet hit on trillions of dollars of long-term assets.
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These gave banks more freedom to use models to value illiquid assets and more flexibility in recognising losses on long-term assets in their income statements.
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