“I was then baffled when he even called American patriotism ‘foolish,’” Smith writes. Yes — he called patriotism “foolish,” and do you know what? That is, objectively, a proble ...

“What they did is foolish, at best,” he says, of the regulator, “and at worst, really, really stupid.” Kahn believes that NYCB has always been a conservative lender, and that its chief ...