The dramatic rise—and epic fall—of mortgage lender Countrywide.
By 2003, one in eight homebuyers were getting their home loans through Countrywide.
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By 2003, one in eight homebuyers were getting their home loans through Countrywide.
He built Countrywide Financial into the country’s largest mortgage lender, but its increasingly risky loans helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis.
Time magazine, citing Countrywide’s loosened lending standards and exotic mortgages, named him one of the “25 People to Blame” for the housing crisis.
Angelo Robert Mozilo, the founder of Countrywide Financial, died from natural causes this weekend. He was 84 years old.
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