Excellent report on the ineffective oversight of Countrywide Financial by its regulatory agency, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). This in-depth investigation provides extensive factual evidence from multiple sources to document the failure of OTS to fulfill its public duties and police the thrift industry it was supposed to regulate. A textbook example of enterprise journalism.

Good piece about how "deregulation" was a synonym for "enabling financial criminals."

a long-form article with many names, places, facts, etc. about a specific banking regulating agency and its' relationship over ~1998-2006 with Countrywide. Well researched and reported.

The two reporters did a fantastic of weaving together the sleaze-ball loans given to people could never re-pay just for the short term profit.