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📈 Mamdani's New York drives capital flight and a property crash

A democratic-socialist mayoralty in New York — rent freeze, $30 minimum wage, city-run grocery stores, police replaced by social workers — pushes out the top decile that pays roughly two-thirds of the city's tax base, so New York property marks down and the fiscal base cracks rather than absorbing the program. Chamath's tradeable expression is an outright short of New York real estate; Jason's mechanism is voting with your feet to Austin and Miami.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 67.0 GREEN
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT SLG
expression · bearish equities
HALF
result · return +12.2% · vs SPY -7.1%
2026-06-28
born 2025-06-28 (E233) → window closed

⚖ Why this result

fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2025-06-28 → 2026-06-28 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. The call: ▼ SHORT SLG (primary play). SLG fell 12.2% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = +12.2% (the call made money).
  3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +19.3% → vs SPY = +12.2 − (+19.3) = -7.1% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
    Direction-only read: +31.5% — did SLG move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
  4. Rule fired:
    · RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+
    ▶ HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all
    · WRONG — everything else
  5. Credit: supporters of a HALF earn 0.5 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Ben Shapiro, Chamath, Jason, Keith Rabois | proxy-sensitive: ESRT→HIT (+32.1%); VNO→MISS (-4.5%)

Conviction timeline

bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15

Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2025-06-28)

Plays

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▼ SHORT SLGstock PRIMARY SL Green is the pure-play Manhattan landlord — NYC office values and tax-base flight hit its NAV directly
▼ SHORT ESRTstock adjacent Empire State Realty is NYC-only across office and residential, so a rent freeze plus outmigration hits both segments
▼ SHORT VNOstock adjacent Vornado's Manhattan office and retail book carries the same city-specific policy risk

Mention log newest first

Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro (regular guest ×1.0) equities 30% · n=5 · E238 (2025-08-09) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 1:02:39 SUPPORT · horizon 24mo
“It'll take a year, two years for those policies to actually hit and destroy all of New York.”
Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois (regular guest ×1.0) equities 30% · n=5 · E235 (2025-07-11) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 2:14 SUPPORT
“It's safe. Yeah. It's safe right now. We'll see on November 4th. You know, as you probably heard, on July 4th was the first time in recorded history that there were no shootings or no murders in New York on that day. So right now, things are in pretty good shape, but we may be leaving New York quickly.”
Chamath
Chamath equities 42% · n=163 · E233 (2025-06-28) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:00:52 SUPPORT
“But I would be short New York real estate. I think it's going to crash and burn, and then we'll pick up the pieces and we'll reset.”
Jason
Jason equities 49% · n=105 · E233 (2025-06-28) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 46:40 SUPPORT
“two thirds of the tax base in New York is paid for by the top 10 percent who are leaving. People will leave. They will see that Austin and Miami are fantastic cities to live in at half the price, a third of the price, and you get a tax break.”

Who built this conviction

each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Jason
Jason 49%
1 scoring event · 48% of moves
+35.0 → net +35.0
Chamath
Chamath 42%
1 scoring event · 20% of moves
+14.6 → net +14.6
Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro 30% regular guest ×1.0
1 scoring event · 17% of moves
+12.2 → net +12.2
Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois 30% regular guest ×1.0
1 scoring event · 16% of moves
+11.8 → net +11.8

⏳ decay drained -60.5 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
E233 2025-06-28 init +35.0 35.0 E233 born by Jason (explicit_prediction x2)
E233 2025-06-28 reinforce +14.6 49.6 E233 Chamath support x2 (new voice)
E234 2025-07-04 decay -2.0 47.6 E234 silent
E235 2025-07-11 reinforce +11.8 59.4 E235 Keith Rabois support x2 (new voice)
E236 2025-07-19 decay -2.4 57.0 E236 silent
E237 2025-08-01 decay -2.3 54.8 E237 silent
E238 2025-08-09 reinforce +12.2 67.0 E238 Ben Shapiro support x3 (new voice)
E239 2025-08-15 decay -2.7 64.3 E239 silent
E240 2025-08-22 decay -2.6 61.7 E240 silent
E241 2025-08-29 decay -2.5 59.3 E241 silent
E242 2025-09-07 decay -2.4 56.9 E242 silent
E243 2025-09-19 decay -2.3 54.6 E243 silent
E244 2025-09-27 decay -2.2 52.4 E244 silent
E245 2025-10-03 decay -2.1 50.3 E245 silent
E246 2025-10-10 decay -2.0 48.3 E246 silent
E247 2025-10-17 decay -1.9 46.4 E247 silent
E248 2025-10-24 decay -1.9 44.5 E248 silent
E249 2025-10-31 decay -1.8 42.7 E249 silent
E250 2025-11-07 decay -1.7 41.0 E250 silent
E251 2025-11-14 decay -1.6 39.4 E251 silent
E252 2025-11-22 decay -1.6 37.8 E252 silent
E253 2025-12-06 decay -1.5 36.3 E253 silent
E254 2025-12-13 decay -1.5 34.9 E254 silent
E255 2025-12-19 decay -1.4 33.5 E255 silent
E256 2025-12-31 decay -1.3 32.1 E256 silent
E257 2026-01-10 decay -1.3 30.8 E257 silent
E258 2026-01-17 decay -1.2 29.6 E258 silent
E259 2026-01-30 decay -1.2 28.4 E259 silent
E260 2026-02-07 decay -1.1 27.3 E260 silent
E261 2026-02-13 decay -1.1 26.2 E261 silent
E262 2026-02-28 decay -1.0 25.1 E262 silent
E263 2026-03-06 decay -1.0 24.1 E263 silent
E264 2026-03-13 decay -1.0 23.2 E264 silent
E265 2026-03-19 decay -0.9 22.2 E265 silent
E266 2026-03-27 decay -0.9 21.4 E266 silent
E267 2026-04-03 decay -0.9 20.5 E267 silent
E268 2026-04-10 decay -0.8 19.7 E268 silent
E269 2026-04-17 decay -0.8 18.9 E269 silent
E270 2026-04-24 decay -0.8 18.1 E270 silent
E271 2026-05-01 decay -0.7 17.4 E271 silent
E272 2026-05-08 decay -0.7 16.7 E272 silent
E273 2026-05-15 decay -0.7 16.0 E273 silent
E274 2026-05-22 decay -0.6 15.4 E274 silent
E275 2026-05-29 decay -0.6 14.8 E275 silent
E276 2026-06-13 decay -0.6 14.2 E276 silent
E277 2026-06-19 decay -0.6 13.6 E277 silent
E278 2026-06-26 decay -0.5 13.1 E278 silent