{"id":240416,"date":"2026-05-22T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240416\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:11:08","slug":"jamie-dimon-puts-mamdani-on-notice-that-new-york-needs-to-survive-and-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240416\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Dimon puts Mamdani on notice that New York needs to \u2018survive and grow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a few days, but <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/21\/us-news\/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-has-blunt-message-for-ideologue-mamdani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon<\/a> finally offered some hard words on Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s scapegoating of successful New Yorkers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can talk about morality and ideology all you want, but if things don\u2019t get better, you didn\u2019t do a good job,\u201d Dimon bluntly warned the mayor in a Bloomberg TV interview Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In an echo of his earlier, too-polite <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/19\/business\/wall-street-bigwigs-dimon-solomon-fail-to-stand-up-to-mamdanis-madness-as-nyc-mayors-apology-tour-flops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in-person comments to Mamdani<\/a>, he added: \u201cHopefully he\u2019ll learn,\u201d because \u201cI want him to do a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Unlike City Hall\u2019s boy Bolshevik, the 70-year-old Wall Street titan knows what it takes to make the Big Apple prosperous.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani can \u201cbe an ideologue, but he has to compete too\u201d by making \u201cthe city a place where people want to grow and build and live and have families and work,\u201d chided Dimon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd people vote with their feet,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>The city \u2014 and the mayor \u2014 need to hear a lot more of this. <\/p>\n<p>If City Hall continues to obsess with redistribution and cheap class-warfare posturing, the city won\u2019t \u201csurvive and grow\u201d: It will falter and shrink. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, getting called out repeatedly by the big guns who make Gotham work will at least teach Mamdani least a little humility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took a few days, but JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon finally offered some hard words on Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[304,19777,2375,9,11,10,299,2780,82],"class_list":["post-240416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-editorial","tag-government-spending","tag-jamie-dimon","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-opinion","tag-taxes","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}