New York City’s pension funds could resume investing in Israeli government bonds, a move that would funnel public money directly into Israel’s treasury despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza and its apartheid system in the occupied West Bank.
“The Israel bonds have performed very well and they continue to be investment grade rated,” Mark Levine, New York City’s chief financial officer, told the FT. “My fiduciary responsibility is to make investment decisions based on that record of performance.”
Israeli government bonds function as direct loans to the state, providing steady interest payments to investors while channelling cash straight into government coffers.
So when you get a new job you go in within the first two weeks and make huge changes that impact everyone served by the company, without fully understanding the systems you are working with? That’s what you are asking for here.
Cuz he’s in transition. Training. Learning his job and how to do it. And running an entire city probably takes a bit more transition than some dumb corpo job where you can slot into many similar jobs.
Before election: “He’s going to go in and change the system!”
After election: “He’s learning how he needs to be part of the system!”
Yeah heaven forbid someone wants to do things right instead of doing things like Trump. Do what you like and who cares what you fuck up along the way, right?
Democrats “we can’t do things right, only dictators do that!”
Republicans: Do things
Nobody would care if Mamdani used his powers to good things. And no opponent of Mamdani will praise him for not doing so. You are making excuses.
You think dictators are doing things right by moving fast and breaking things?
Hmmmmmmmm yeah I’m done with this conversation. Best of luck with that.