European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold

The bloodletting will hit hardest in back-office operations, risk management, and compliance.

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Good Guy Crookie: That's *Mayor* Zohran Mamdani!

Good guy of the year? Yup, my vote is for Zohran Mamdani.

Mayor Mamdani was sworn in at midnight New Year's Eve in the old subway station beneath City Hall in New York.

But it's his campaign that brought joy and hope not only to New Yorkers, but to the whole country.

The Mamdani for Mayor campaign had great Democratic messaging. Free buses, a rent freeze, affordable housing, a public grocery store in each of the five boroughs, and childcare.

It's not complicated.

And Mamdani did something else that I believe made him win: he celebrated the city he and his voters call home.

The summertime scavenger hunt brought all the boys and girls to the yard, and, I think, healed a lot of the desperation we were clinging to after Covid.

In the week since relaunching neighborhood canvasses, our volunteers have knocked more than 91k doors across the five boroughs — including 25k this weekend.

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