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Part 1: GDP Growth Absolute growth

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Part 1: GDP and Mortgage Debt Absolute growth

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HH Mortgage debt 3.8 times bigger

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Part 1: GDP, total Mortgage, and FNM & FRE Absolute growth

GDP, HH Mortgages, FNM + FRE mortage holdings 1990 to2007

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1990 to 2007: combined FNM and FRE balance sheet is 11 times bigger

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Part 1: GDP, total Mortgage, FNM & FRE, and CFC Absolute growth

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1990 to 2007: combined FNM and FRE balance sheet is 11 times bigger

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Part 1: Incentives Matter, a Lot Absolute growth 16

Countrywide's balance sheet doubles and more, filling in as "extensive financial fraud" puts limits on FNM and FRE asset growth.

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Combined: FNM+FRE+CFC 1990 to 2007: combined FNM and FRE balance sheet is 11 times bigger

Accounting fraud puts limits on FNM and FRE

Explosive growth of government sponsored entities (GSEs); FNM chairman, Franklin Raines, makes over $90 million from 1998 to 2003

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Part 2: Government Sponsored Lunacy Single-Family Mortgage Originations by market segment, 2001-2007

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Part 2: How can this be?  FNM & FRE Guarantee sub-prime mortgages  Banks originate; then create, sell, or keep  Investors buy ABS; eventually the smart ones short them Fannie Mae 2001 Annual Report:

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Part 2: Lunacy in Detail.

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Part 2: Lemmings (banks) following FNM & FRE 2005 Sub-Prime "League Table" 2005 Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Subprime Lender Ameriquest Mortgage New Century Countrywide Financial Wells Fargo Option One Mortgage Washington Mutual Fremont Investment & Loan First Franklin Financial GMAC-RFC HSBC Mortgage Services WMC Mortgage CitiFinancial Decision One Accredited Home Lenders BNC Mortgage Aegis Mortgage ECC Capital Finance America American General Finance Chase Home Finance NovaStar Financial Equifirst Ownit Mortgage Solutions IndyMac Bank ResMae Mortgage

Volume ($billions) $79.7 $52.7 $44.6 $42.3 $40.1 $36.1 $34.9 $29.3 $25.3 $25.1 $24.0 $20.5 $16.9 $16.6 $15.6 $14.7 $14.0 $10.3 $9.9 $9.7 $9.3 $8.8 $8.3 $7.4 $6.9

Mkt Share 12.0% 7.9% 6.7% 6.4% 6.0% 5.4% 5.2% 4.4% 3.8% 3.8% 3.6% 3.1% 2.5% 2.5% 2.3% 2.2% 2.1% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 1.4% 1.3% 1.2% 1.1% 1.0%

$603

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$475 $665

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Total Top 25 2005 Total Top 25 2004 Total 2005 All Lending Source: Inside B&C Lending, 2/17/06

2004 Rank 1 2 3 9 6 4 7 5 10 11 12 8 13 14 16 15 18 20 25 17 19 21 26 27 29

2004 YoY Mkt Shr Gain (Loss) 15.6% -4% 8.0% 25% 7.4% 13% 4.2% 89% 4.9% 54% 5.7% 20% 4.5% 46% 5.5% 1% 3.8% 24% 3.4% 38% 2.5% 81% 4.4% -13% 2.4% 34% 2.3% 33% 2.1% 40% 2.2% 23% 1.7% 54% 1.6% 24% 0.9% 115% 1.8% 1% 1.6% 10% 1.2% 43% 0.7% 126% 0.7% 103% 0.5% 156%

2005 Mortgage Originations (billions) Total: $2,774 Sub-prime: $605 (22%)

89.7% 100.0%

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Part 2: Countrywide, over the cliff.

Into the void

Countrywide Financial Assets 30 25 20 15

Balance sheet grows more than 25 times

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Part 2: And, who funded Countrywide Bank?

Inconceivable!

Countrywide Bank Year end 2006 Assets (millions) Mortgages Other

79,085 1,678

Total

80,763

Liabilities (millions) Deposits FHLB* Other Equity Total

49,855 21,496 3,907 5,505 80,763

62% 27% 5% 7%

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Part 2: The beginning of the End‌2007 August 8, 2007

German Fund Stops Payouts, Citing Mortgage Market Unease

By BLOOMBERG NEWS

WestLB Mellon Asset Management suspended redemptions of an asset-backed securities fund yesterday amid investor concern about the problems in the subprime mortgage market in the United States.

WSJ Lenders Broaden Clampdown on Risky Mortgages Tightening Standards Could Worsen Slump In the Housing Market

By JAMES R. HAGERTY and RUTH SIMON August 3, 2007; Page A3

Jittery home-mortgage lenders are cutting off credit or raising interest rates for a growing portion of Americans, extending well beyond the market for subprime loans for people with the weakest credit records.

This worsening credit crunch threatens to put further pressure on the housing market, where prices are flat to declining in much of the country

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Part 3: In search of the villains…  The banks: BSC, LEH, CFC, JPM, …?  The bankers: Cayne, Fuld, Mozilo, Diamond, …?  The rating agencies: S&P, Moody’s, Fitch, …?  Congress: Dodd, Frank, et al…?  We the people? We voted for them. They wrote the law.

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Part 3: Evidence.

Fannie Mae 2001 annual report, The American Dream, page 47

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Conclusion

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Postscript Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

(Hanlon’s razor)

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Stephen Sexauer Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) (2003–2012) Mr. Sexauer is a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer for Multi-Asset US at Allianz Global Investor US (previously the Chief Investment Officer of Allianz Global Investors Solutions LLC, which merged into Allianz Global Investors U.S. in January 2013. Prior to Allianz Global Investors US, Mr. Sexauer was a portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management from July 1989-March 2002. Mr. Sexauer worked at Salomon Brothers from November 1986-June 1989. Mr. Sexauer previously worked in Economic Consulting at Merrill Lynch Economics and at Wharton Econometrics. Mr. Sexauer holds an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in economics and statistics and a BS from the University of Illinois in economics.

Economic data in this presentation are derived from internal research, publicly available statistics published by Bloomberg, the US Federal Reserve, OFHEO, the US Department of Commerce, and the International Monetary Fund.

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Appendix Countrywide Financial Company 2006 10K Page 10

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