Mamdani v. Bill Ackman
Gazillionaire Bill Ackman says that he is “gravely concerned” by the possibility of Mamdani getting elected mayor because rich people are going to flee New York and the city will become “economically unviable.” Paul Krugman says this kind of talk is nothing more than “hysteria” from “the moguls of madness.” I know Krugman only won the Nobel Prize in Economics while Ackman is a rich Trump supporter whose major achievement is getting the first Black woman president of Harvard fired, but who are you going to believe? But here’s the really creepy thing about Ackman’s position. According to Forbes: Hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman said he and his wealthy associates are ready to pour “hundreds of millions of dollars” into the […]