Jamie Dimon puts Mamdani on notice that New York needs to ‘survive and grow’
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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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What happened
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.
Why it matters
“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.
Common ground
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…
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Follow-up questions
- What new context would change how readers understand this Economic Competitiveness story?
- What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that 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?
- How does this story connect Economic Competitiveness with Class Struggle over the next few days?
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