Jamie Dimon puts Mamdani on notice that New York needs to ‘survive and grow’
It took a few days, but JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon finally offered some hard words on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s scapegoating of successful New Yorkers.
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“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 comments to Mamdani, he added: “Hopefully he’ll learn,” because “I want him to do a good job.”
Unlike City Hall’s boy Bolshevik, the 70-year-old Wall Street titan knows what it takes to make the Big Apple prosperous.
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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.
“And people vote with their feet,” he warned.
The city — and the mayor — need to hear a lot more of this.
If City Hall continues to obsess with redistribution and cheap class-warfare posturing, the city won’t “survive and grow”: It will falter and shrink.
Maybe, just maybe, getting called out repeatedly by the big guns who make Gotham work will at least teach Mamdani least a little humility.
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