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  • Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?
    Is the Labour government failing to change anything because of bad choices – or because the economic situation makes them powerless to act?👕 TAX WEALTH NOT WORK t-shirt available here: https://shop.garyseconomics.org/––––––––What Gary talks about in this episode:(00:00) Intro(01:13) Labour just unlucky?(04:22) Could they have fixed it?(06:50) Are they incompetent?(08:30) The centre is failing globally(11:14) They don’t understand economics(13:58) The real problem(18:00) Demand for change is unstoppable(19:20) Collapse of the Roman Empire(20:14) What new idea will win? (25:35) Fascism and poverty(26:15) What do you do?(28:18) My message to the intellectual class(30:23) What is really happening
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  • The first politician on Gary's Economics
    Is the UK unique in its housing crisis and expanding wealth inequality? How can we win a wealth tax? How do you convince working people to get behind green policies?Gary meets MP and co-leader of the New Zealand Green Party Chlöe Swarbrick. (00:00) Intro(02:01) Who is Chloe Swarbrick?(05:43) New Zealand’s economy(10:00) Wealth inequality in NZ(14:24) Wealth taxes globally(15:35) How do we win?(20:00) The Murdoch strategy(21:50) Chloe’s advice to Gary(25:56) Anti-immigrant politics(29:20) Coal miners and green politics(31:13) How to win public support(34:49) Are you hopeful?
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  • Will Reform win the next UK election?
    The next four years in British politics will be turbulent. Here is what the markets are predicting. And what I think will happen.(00:00) intro(00:15) What are the odds?(04:15) Is the betting market wrong?(06:20) Trend to populist right(07:49) Labour’s position(09:05) Will Keir Starmer be replaced?(09:42) Labour will rebrand(11:35) How Labour could win(13:35) Labour and immigration (14:23) Can the Conservatives win?(16:39) The Liberal Democrats(17:18) The Greens and Zack Polanski(20:50) How Reform could be defeated (26:35) Centrists: my message to you(28:03) The left: how you can win(32:28) What will happen if Farage wins(36:28) The slide towards extremism(38:28) Reform voters: my message to you
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  • How to be the best trader in the world
    I made millions of pounds betting on economic destruction. Here's how I did it. How you could do it too. But also why it doesn't matter if your aim is to change anything politically.(00:00) Intro(03:14) Trading is economic forecasting(09:30) Being right when others are wrong(15:45) Identify one thing people are wrong about(17:15) Why I love trading(19:03) What good traders do(21:41) I don’t care about your opinion(23:09) Counter-trend trading(25:17) The downsides of trading(28:28) You can’t change things as a trader(30:35) Trading sucks up all the talent(31:58) Is trading economic analysis?(33:30) The worst economists(36:17) Trading is meritocratic(40:00) Why this matters for politics(42:52) Politicians won’t listen to me(44:05) What can we do?(46:40) What I am hopeful about
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  • Storytelling is how you win in politics now. This is why the far right is winning
    In times of crisis people are desperate for stories to explain why their lives are getting worse. This is why storytelling is the most important – but most ignored – aspect of politics right now. The far right offer a simple story, repeated over and over: it's the immigrants. The Trumps and Farages of the world are surging on the back of this simple, effective storytelling. What can liberals and the left learn from this? Can we come up with a better story?Chapters(00:00) Intro(03:02) Who decides what is salient or not?(08:29) The importance of storytelling(10:20) People need stories in times of crisis(14:55) The best storytellers take power(17:35) Citizen journalists on social media are powerful(22:29) Tell simple messages(23:22) What our story needs to be(25:22) WHY the far right is winning
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Gary Stevenson – inequality economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game – explains how real world economics work.
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