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Subprime times at Countrywide Financial

Subprime times at Countrywide Financial

FromSpectacular Failures


Subprime times at Countrywide Financial

FromSpectacular Failures

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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Sep 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Before the housing bubble burst, Countrywide Financial was one of the nation’s largest home mortgage lenders. But after years of predatory lending practices, the predator went extinct.
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Released:
Sep 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (25)

Corporate crookedness. Family feuding. Hilariously half-baked decisions. Host Lauren Ober tackles some of the most spectacular business failures of all time, and what could have been done to avoid them. Some of these stories are shocking. Some are funny. Some are just downright sad. But each one will give you a totally new perspective on big business… and big failure. From American Public Media.