NYC and Mamdani Echo Through a Miami Event for Rich and Powerful

In the days after an anti-billionaire democratic socialist was elected mayor of New York City, some of the world’s richest and most powerful business leaders and politicians gathered 1,300 miles south in Miami.

Francis Suarez during the America Business Forum

Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg

The America Business Forum — an event that started in Uruguay but moved to Miami under the guidance of outgoing Mayor Francis Suarez and sponsorship from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund — could hardly have been more timely.

What was even more remarkable was the prominent names speaking: President Donald Trump, financier Ken Griffin, soccer legend Lionel Messi and FIFA head Gianni Infantino ...