CHAIN OF BLAME

How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis

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The Authors

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Paul Muolo Paul Muolo executive editor of National Mortgage News, the leading independent trade publication of the residential finance industry. He also has a popular blog titled What We're Hearing

Matt Padilla Matt Padilla is a business reporter for the Orange County Register, a newspaper reaching close to 300,000 households in Southern California. Matt also has a popular blog titled Mortgage Insider.


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Author Profiles

Paul Muolo is co-author, Inside Job, the Looting of America’s Savings and Loans (McGraw-Hill), a New York Times bestseller. Inside Job won several journalism awards, including: the Investigative Reporters & Editors best book of the year, and The Adult Editors Book Award. It was nominated for a Pulitzer prize. Paul is also executive editor of National Mortgage News, the leading independent trade publication of the residential finance industry. He is a member of the NMN staff that received the 1990 Polk Award for its coverage of the savings and loan crisis. His freelance work has appeared in: Barron’s, the New York Times, the Washington Post, EuroMoney, Playboy and other publications. He has appeared as a guest discussing mortgage, real estate, and banking issues on ABC, CNN, CNBC, NPR and other networks. He is sometimes quoted as a mortgage expert in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and other publications. Paul also has a popular blog titled What We're Hearing

Matt Padilla is a business reporter for the Orange County Register, a newspaper reaching close to 300,000 households in Southern California. He led the paper’s breaking news coverage of the implosion of Orange County-based subprime lenders, once darlings of Wall Street. His work, and that of two colleagues, was selected by the paper’s editors as a submission for the Pulitzer Prize and recognized by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Matt also has a popular blog titled Mortgage Insider.