A giant, sucking sound is coming out of Wall Street — and it’s siphoning staggering sums of money out of the Big Apple while handing business to Florida and other states farther south.
Nearly 160 Wall Street firms have moved their headquarters out of New York since the end of 2019, taking nearly $1 trillion — yes, that’s trillion with a “T” — in assets under management with them, according to data from 17,000 companies compiled by Bloomberg. Looking to dodge rampant crime, stiff taxes and an increasingly exorbitant cost of living, 158 fed-up financial firms representing a whopping $993 billion in assets have packed up and left the Big Apple, taking thousands of high-paid employees with them, the data shows.
Anyone wanting to minimize this is part of the problem and deluding you. Anyone wanting to pull up the last 25-40 years of data and ignore the fact that this is since 2019 is just lying. This is a real and recent thing. This adds up. These blue cities are in death spirals and they are doubling down rather than correcting. To say this is "working" to say this is what people want and desire when the word used is FLEEING is really quite a reach. It's literally gaslighting if you are claiming that this is what people really want at this stage.
These are powerful and often wealthy people and if local events could be changed through support of certain candidates or causes, they could and likely have attempted it. Whether through election fraud or manipulation, these wealthy companies and individuals are fleeing blue cities much like how people fled the Eastern Bloc countries or Cuba. Smart people will follow them to freedom. Who's next?
https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/new-y...in-wall-street-business-as-firms-flee-report/