{"id":18691,"date":"2026-05-24T06:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/no-nonsense-wall-street-titans-playing-nice-with-mamdani-are-part-of-the-problem-new-york-post\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T06:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:44:57","slug":"no-nonsense-wall-street-titans-playing-nice-with-mamdani-are-part-of-the-problem-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/no-nonsense-wall-street-titans-playing-nice-with-mamdani-are-part-of-the-problem-new-york-post\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No nonsense\u2019 Wall Street titans playing nice with Mamdani are part of the problem – New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What are these Wall Street titans afraid of, exactly?
Jamie Dimon<\/a> and David Solomon<\/a> \u2014 maybe the two most powerful bankers in New York \u2014 are invariably described as \u201ctough,\u201d \u201cno nonsense\u201d and \u201chard-charging.\u201d
Yet when they each met up last week with the city\u2019s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, you\u2019d think they had just toured a rose garden with Xi Jinping<\/a>.
Dimon and Mamdani held a \u201cfriendly\u201d and \u201cconstructive dialogue\u201d on Monday, a JPMorgan source told me.
The pair chatted about the need for \u201cpublic-private partnerships.\u201d
A few hours later at Gracie Mansion, an insider told me that Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, visited the mayor, and nobody mentioned Ken Griffin<\/a>, the billionaire boss of hedge fund giant Citadel.
It was Griffin, you\u2019ll recall, whose Manhattan penthouse Mamdani used as the backdrop for a noxious video on \u201ctaxing the rich.\u201d<\/a>
Griffin\u2019s name didn\u2019t come up with Dimon, either, because \u201cDimon and Solomon made it clear that the mayor shouldn\u2019t do things to discourage business from staying in the city,\u201d a person with knowledge of the conversations said.
This is what passes for straight talk from big bank bosses these days?
With a 34-year-old lefty politico who never held a private sector job, who won\u2019t condemn \u201cglobalize the intifada\u201d and who actually believes the government should open nearly half a dozen grocery stores in New York City?
Last week, I fired off a column that revealed how Griffin \u2014 who condemned Mamdani\u2019s video as \u201ccreepy\u201d \u2014 had remained the undisturbed elephant in the room during these pleasant huddles.
It was nice to see that at least Dimon \u2014 about 24 hours after we gave him this prod \u2014 tried to set the record straight.
In a Bloomberg TV interview, \u00adDimon called the mayor an \u201cideologue,\u201d adding, \u201cI don\u2019t care what he says.\u201d
Instead, Dimon will be watching whether New York becomes a better place to live and work on Mamdani\u2019s watch.
If it doesn\u2019t, people and businesses will continue to \u201cvote with their feet,\u201d Dimon declared.
Now you tell us?
Where were you during last fall\u2019s mayoral campaign when Mamdani promised to transform the epicenter of capitalism into Moscow on the Hudson?
And why didn\u2019t you mention any of this when the smiling Marxist was sitting in your office a few hours earlier?
Yes, Dimon got a few nice headlines on Bloomberg, but there\u2019s an clich\u00e9 that fitting for people like Jamie, Solly and the rest of our nearly silent business community: If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
Time to step up, guys \u2014 that is, if you really care about the future of our city.
I take no pleasure writing any of this because I have immense respect for both Dimon and Solomon.
They\u2019re smart guys who employ people and give plenty away not just in taxes but to charity.
Finance is the last big business other than real estate that remains domiciled here, having survived years of buffoonish political leaders, rampant crime, crappy schools and a deteriorating quality of life.
Wall Street is still here in the sense that they have HQs in Manhattan.
But financial firms are moving people and jobs to places where taxes are lower and the commies aren\u2019t in charge.
JPM now has more people in Texas<\/a> despite its swanky new digs on Park Avenue.
Goldman has created something like a second HQ in Utah.
So why aren\u2019t Jamie and Solly speaking up more instead of packing up their operations and moving?
Are they worried they would get the same treatment as Griffin?
An exec from one of the firms protested to me that his chief can \u201chave a polite conversation and still speak his mind.\u201d
But was Dimon \u00adreally \u201cspeaking his mind\u201d when he handed Mamdani a book about economic development projects after their little confab?
At least Jamie tried to reflect a bit of the reality that Mamdani brings to New York in that Bloomberg interview (after a little shove by your friendly columnist, or course).
Solomon, meanwhile, has been frighteningly silent.
It\u2019s probably a little unfair to single them out.
I am told nearly all the business chiefs who have met with the mayor have come away charmed by his quick smile and cordial presence.
Nevertheless, Mamdani\u2019s policies are destructive and dangerous.
He\u2019s a left-wing ideologue with an animus toward this country\u2019s founding principles and a Third Worldism that paints Israel as a criminal state \u2014 in a city that holds the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.
Sorry, Jamie & Co., but being polite with someone like this just won\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n

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