And as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates, buoying yields, the value of government paper has dropped.

随着美联储提高利率、提高收益率，政府债券的价值下降了。

Some have opposed them on the groundsthat they don't yield statistically equal ticketing rates by race, and they remain illegal in many US states.

一些人反对它们， 理由是它们在统计上不能按种族产生平等的票务率，而且它们在美国许多州仍然是非法的。

Restoring damage done to the biosphere, taking carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere — these did not yield the highest rate of return, so money went elsewhere, and thus the catastrophe struck home.

修复生物圈所遭受的破坏，从大气中回收二氧化碳，这些都不会产生最高的回报率，所以金钱流向了别处，因此灾难袭击了家园。