Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Countrywide Financial

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Angelo Mozilo's lender, the largest US mortgage originator before its 2008 sale to Bank of America; one insider book plus the subprime-industry histories that carry the rest of the story.

Books 5Experts 1
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
T2 All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 2008 crisis traced back 25 years to mortgage bonds, Fannie Mae and subprime.

Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the MChain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
T3 Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis
Paul Muolo, Mathew Padilla · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Closest coverage: Countrywide is a central thread in the trade-press account of the industry.

The Foreclosure of America: The Inside StoryThe Foreclosure of America: The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of Countrywide Home Loans, the Mortgage Crisis, and the Default of the American Dream
T3 The Foreclosure of America: The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of Countrywide Home Loans, the Mortgage Crisis, and the Default of the American Dream
Adam Michaelson · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account by a Countrywide marketing executive; the one dedicated book.

The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory LendersThe Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America
T3 The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America
Michael W. Hudson · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Origination-floor reporting on the subprime lenders Countrywide competed against and copied.

Other People's Houses: How Decades of BailouOther People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
T3 Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business
Jennifer Taub · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Regulatory history explaining how a thrift-charter lender grew unsupervised.

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