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Mayor Bloomberg is long NYC.....

These look like fat years on Wall Street. In 2006, the city’s biggest financial firms made more than thirty billion dollars in profits. Trading volume on the major exchanges is climbing, while the merger market is booming. And bankers and traders have reaped the benefits, earning close to twenty-five billion dollars in bonuses last year. Yet over the past few months, amid this bounty, a chorus of Cassandras has emerged. “The United States is losing its leading competitive position,” a private-sector commission on capital markets said in a November report, and last week Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Senator Charles Schumer released a study arguing that New York City’s financial dominance was being eroded, thus putting tens of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs at risk. These reports argue that overzealous regulation—as epitomized by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the anti-fraud law passed after the Enron and WorldCom scandals—is making the U.S. an increasingly unalluring place to do business. Unless such regulatory excesses are curbed, they say, New York will soon lose its position as the world’s financial capital.

When we were in the Chicago pits the rallying cry was “Free Markets for Free Men”

Mayor Bloomberg is a democrat who ran as a republican and sometimes sounds like a libertarian

A rich one at that...his net worth is well over $10 billion..and might be pushing $20 billion

Read More of James Surowiecki’s New Yorker piece here

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