When I heard Angelo Mozilo speak at a mortgage lenders conference in Los Angeles a year or two before the housing market collapsed, the then Countrywide CEO was full of bravado. He said tougher times were coming for home lending, with many borrowers overextended and standards lax. He warned the brokers in the audience that…
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