Jamie Dimon puts Mamdani on notice that New York – Latest News
It took a few days, however JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon lastly provided some onerous phrases on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s scapegoating of profitable New Yorkers.
“You can talk about morality and ideology all you want, but if things don’t get better, you didn’t do a good job,” Dimon bluntly warned the mayor in a Bloomberg TV interview Thursday.
In an echo of his earlier, too-polite in-person feedback to Mamdani, he added: “Hopefully he’ll learn,” as a result of “I want him to do a good job.”
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Unlike City Hall’s boy Bolshevik, the 70-year-old Wall Street titan is aware of what it takes to make the Big Apple affluent.
Mamdani can “be an ideologue, but he has to compete too” by making “the city a place where people want to grow and build and live and have families and work,” chided Dimon.
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“And people vote with their feet,” he warned.
The metropolis — and the mayor — need to listen to a lot more of this.
If City Hall continues to obsess with redistribution and low cost class-warfare posturing, town gained’t “survive and grow”: It will falter and shrink.
Maybe, simply possibly, getting referred to as out repeatedly by the massive weapons who make Gotham work will at the least educate Mamdani least a little humility.
