‘No Nonsense’ Wall Street Titans Playing Nice With Mamdani Are Part of the Problem

What are these Wall Street titans afraid of, exactly?

Jamie Dimon and David Solomon — maybe the two most powerful bankers in New York — are invariably described as “tough,” “no nonsense” and “hard-charging.”

Yet when they each met up last week with the city’s socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, you’d think they had just toured a rose garden with Xi Jinping.

Dimon and Mamdani held a “friendly” and “constructive dialogue” on Monday, a JPMorgan source told me.

The pair chatted about the need for “public-private partnerships.”

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, the billionaire boss of hedge fund giant Citadel.