OPINION | Jamie Dimon’s timely warning

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SOCIALISM is now woker than a two-for-one Che Guevara T-shirt sale, with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dominating the party’s imagination.

In a rare calling-out of this bogosity, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned shareholders that “socialism inevitably produces stagnation, corruption and often worse.” He was echoing Winston Churchill’s observation that socialism allows for “the equal sharing of misery.” Why is it only capable of generating misery?Because under socialism, politics rather than productivity drives employment. Technological innovation is suppressed. Long ago, an Israeli explained to me that under socialism — Israel’s economic system until 1985 — you would always hire […]

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