Wall Street bigwigs Dimon, Solomon fail to stand – Business News
Zohran Mamdani’s “apology tour” to quell the business group’s outrage over his weird social media posting focusing on fellow business chief Ken Griffin didn’t embrace a lot apologizing, The Post has discovered.
In reality, Griffin’s identify and Mamdani’s “creepy” stunt — the place he stood outdoors the Citadel chief’s penthouse to brag about taxing the wealthy — by no means got here up within the confabs Monday with two of the most important CEOs on Mamdani’s agenda, Jamie Dimon, the chief of mega bank JP Morgan and David Solomon, the CEO of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs.
Don’t blame our Marxist mayor for ignoring the apparent — that his social media spot focusing on Griffin isn’t simply dangerous coverage, since it’s going to drive away the buyers town wants, it’s additionally harmful given the current spate of violence directed on the CEO class by leftists.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on Monday. Stephen Yang for NY Post
No, level the finger at Dimon and Solomon for being too timid to even gently remind Mamdani that his rhetoric is making town more and more uninhabitable for business — not simply theirs however anybody who employs working class people within the 5 boroughs.
Yes, I do know each are two of town’s largest employers, and you may make the case they’ve a lot to lose.
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But they misplaced a lot already, and their years of acquiescence to the loons in metropolis and state authorities has simply made them an more and more larger goal for taxes, welfare-state schemes and the defund the police insurance policies that put their middle-class workers at risk.
And as they are saying in boxing, that they had Mamdani on the ropes.
The extremely anticipated conferences had been set up final month by Mamdani’s employees after the business advocacy group, the Partnership for New York City, defined that his social media spot about Griffin wasn’t sitting effectively with the people he wants to pay for all these welfare perks he desires to hand out.
Mamdani angered many within the metropolis’s business group by filming a video celebrating his pied-à-terre tax proposal outdoors of hedge fund supervisor Ken Griffin’s Manhattan house building. Mayor Mamdani/X
Mamdani’s leftist insurance policies and Marist proselytizing was forcing many business leaders not dedicated to transferring elsewhere, to begin eager about relocation. In a panic, Mamdani’s employees started dialing up business leaders to clarify how he doesn’t actually hate them, even when thinks wealthy people, who pay most of town’s taxes, actually don’t pay their “fair share.”
That’s a onerous one to swallow — but two of probably the most savvy businessmen I do know did simply that.
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A JP Morgan source advised me Dimon and Mamdani actually hit it off. “It was a constructive friendly meeting on ways we can forge public and private partnerships.”
Griffin’s identify “never came up” during the “friendly and constructive” sit-down.
Dimon even gave Mamdani a guide about financial development, as if he thinks he may in a single day fill the gaps within the mayor’s ideology.
Ken Griffin didn’t come up during Mamdani’s personal assembly with Dimon and Solomon, sources advised The Post. REUTERS
Ditto for Solomon, who went to Gracie Mansion for his pow wow to kiss the proverbial ring.
Ken Griffin’s identify didn’t need to come up, people with information of Solomon’s dialog stated, as a result of “Dimon and Solomon made it clear that the mayor shouldn’t do things to discourage business from staying in the city,” a particular person with information of the dialog stated.
Still, the 2 hit it off a lot that DJ D-Sol (Solomon has a aspect hustle as a DJ within the Hamptons occasion circuit) invited the smiling Marxist to Goldman Sachs’ elegant West Side headquarters to show that investment bankers don’t have horns growing out of their skulls.
Or possibly Solly desires to faucet into Mamdani’s playlist; our mayor was, after all, a rapper earlier than leaping into left-wing politics.
Ken Griffin, who has to date rebuffed the mayor after being threatened by him, minced few phrases in explaining the menace of Mamdani on the Milken Institute convention a couple of weeks in the past. Griffin will double-down on an growth not in New York, however Miami, the place the federal government presents the “American Dream and a dream of earned success, not a dream of redistributive handouts that leave people dependent on government for their lives.”
Well stated. Too dangerous Dimon and Solomon didn’t make the purpose. What are they afraid of?
