Banks and other major financial institutions were unwilling to sell the assets at significantly reduced prices, since lower prices would force them to reduce significantly their stated assets, making them, at least on paper, insolvent.
Os bancos e outras grandes institucións financeiras non estaban dispostos a vender os activos a prezos moi reducidos, porque isto os obrigaría a reducir os seus activos declarados, o que, en teoría, os convertería en insolventes.