Hour 1: Is socialism good for the economy?

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4.3 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced his transition team yesterday. President Trump commented on Mamdani’s victory as the next mayor of NYC. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews economist Steve Moore. Is Mamdani’s proposal to match New Jersey’s tax rates in NYC a smart move to help the poor? Could “socialism in the city” hurt the economy? Socialism may or may not be good for the economy.

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0:00.0	Live from Midtown Manhattan.
0:03.1	Here comes the Mark Simone show on 710 W0.
0:12.2	Hey, what's today?
0:14.0	Thursday.
0:14.7	Seems like the week's, oh, this has been a hell of a week,
0:17.6	a lot of this stressful draining week because of everything going on.
0:22.2	But we'll get to Mamdani. We'll also give you the whole story of how he did this.
0:28.1	It's an interesting behind-the-scenes story of how he went from zero to 41% to 50% and to win the election, a majority by the way with a majority of the
0:40.5	votes now only let me see 45 percent of New York voted registered voters which is actually
0:47.7	less than actual population out of all the registered voters in New York, only 45% voted.
0:55.6	That was it.
0:56.6	But we'll get to the campaign, how it worked.
0:58.8	We'll get to the transition.
1:00.0	We'll get to Nancy Pelosi.
1:01.6	She's leaving.
1:02.9	We'll get to the shutdown.
1:04.5	We'll get to, oh, MSNBC.
1:07.2	The final week is next week of MSNBC.
1:10.0	Then it switches to this new thing but we'll we'll explain
1:12.7	all of that coming up ummmy has picked his transition team now as we've been telling you
1:20.5	it's a lot of the de Blasio people the de Blasio staff came in and helped the Mamdani campaign, and they'll be a big
1:29.2	part of the administration. So if you're wondering how bad it's going to be, it will be very,
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