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Gary Stevenson

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“I do worry about that. I do worry about that. And that's why I still trade. That's why I still trade. Listen, you want to be a good trader. You want to make money every year. You haven't got no space for emotional biases. You've got to be right. You've got to be right. You've got to be right. You got to be right. And I make money every year. I keep betting. I keep winning. The truth is, the best paid $10,000 economists in the world, they are all traders. And I'm the only one that's going to speak to you because they get paid not to speak to you. I keep trading, I keep betting, I keep winning. I think I'm good at this. I think I'm right at this. And I think I'm going to keep being right”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No current intention. If I'm in a situation where I feel like that gives me a chance of getting this and it's my only realistic chance, then I would have to consider it. But I don't even want to be a YouTuber. I want to be on holiday. But, you know, country's falling apart and someone's got to try and do something.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm up to speak. To be honest, we tried before the election and they weren't really interested. We couldn't really get them in. But I'm much bigger now. Labour did reach out to us. I've been away for seven weeks. I'm happy to talk to them. Listen, I want to change. I want to stop this economic collapse. And I'm well aware that there's probably no path to that that does not go through the Labour Party. So if I was to rule them out, then I would be ruling out my chance of change. I'd be very happy to speak.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First up, tell them the truth. Tell them the truth, which is the fact, We, your older generation, we fucked it up and we made it impossible for people from working class backgrounds to make money. So first of all, just accept that, realize that. Because I have friends who work so hard, they studied, they got the right degrees, they work so hard, and they struggle to pay the mortgage. They struggle to put food on the table. And they think that's because they've made a mistake. But it's not. It's because we made a mistake. It's because the older generation made a mistake and created an economy with no social mobility. So the first thing if you want to get the support of young men, stop lying to them.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you need to recognize the reality of the world men are in, and especially importantly, the place class plays in that. I think working class men, poorer men, are living in an extremely hostile world. We live in the myth of meritocracy that tells you you are what you make. Your value is the money that you make. And yet we actually live in an economy where the only way to get rich realistically nowadays for young person is to have a rich dad. So if you don't have a rich dad, you're told, oh, work harder, work harder, work harder, then your friend from school buys a house because his dad gave him £300,000 cash. He doesn't post on Instagram, you know, I got this with my dad's money. We are telling young people in a world with almost no meritocracy that all the outcomes are because of meritocracy. And we tell people, if you don't make money, you're a failure in a world that gives them no opportunity to make money. It's an absolute recipe for mental health disaster. So you need to capture this. You need to accept this. You need to recognize the extremely hostile life that we have put on men from working class backgrounds. And we need to be realistic and say, listen.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, some of them do. Yeah. I mean, I think I sort of made Billy out to be a bit more of a villain. You know, I drew out the villainous characters, the characteristics of him. I think Billy's got happy marriage. You know, he's not the perfect man. And, you know, I went to a boys' grammar school when I think it starts with this kind of thing. And I know a lot of richer Posha people do go to boys' schools. It starts there. Women are a thing that happens outside of work. You know what I mean? And life happens inside of work. And I'm sure you saw similar things in Parliament.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because for me, what I see here is the end result of really a lot of men from different backgrounds who have received no kindness from a young age. Close to each other, but the only way they know to get human closest is to compete and to win. This feels to me very British boarding school, very Oxford, very Cambridge. Like we train people that the only way, especially men, the only form of”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, there's no female traders in the book. Yeah, there's only one named female character, and that is the woman who brought me onto the trading floor. And that was intentional because, like, for me, do you ever remember the final scene of The Godfather, if you've seen it where he's in there with his concierge and his wife's outside holding the two kids and the door closes on them? Like that's the guys on the trading floor would go out on Thursday night to try to get laid. Purely so they could try to boast about it to their male colleagues. Like the only romance there is between the traders. I read the audiobook. I recorded it. And when I read it, there were some points where I had to stop because I got emotional. And those points were the points at which the traders showed each other kindness.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, but yeah, it's just a classic, it's Macbeth, right? It's the power game. You want to be the top dog, you want to be above those guys. Like, it would be meaningless without the money, but the money is about being the best. The money is about...”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Even trading, in my opinion, is not really, it is about the money, but it's not about the money. It is the same. It is about the winning. It is about the winning. It is about the competition. It's this obsession with winning.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Greed is good. You are supposed to win. There is no such thing as society. You have to win. You have to win. You have to win. And this is not just trading.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the big thing for me about the trading floor culturally is it's the absolute extreme of masculine aggressive ambition. I had this Italian junior and the book is called Titsi and he was working with you when I was like a very successful trader and he says you're a great trader but the problem is you're too homo hominy lupus and I was like what the fuck is homo hominy lupus he says man is wolf to man and i stood up to him and i said look look at these look at these guys around me every single guy in here is trying to pick my pocket don't tell me man is fucking wolf to man because you're surrounded by wolves and that that was the that was the sense it was but for me what i wanted to get with and it's interesting you make this comparison to to parliament because it's not just about the trading floor for me this is about a taught mode of masculinity that we teach all our young men which is that your job is to make money your job is to do the best for you as an individual”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I was young when he was around. I wasn't super politicized. My sense is that I think he actually is a very intelligent person. And I don't think he's selfishly motivated. I think, but this is, I don't know the guy. This is just my sense from outside. So in that sense, I think he's the kind of person that I think we need more of in politics. Intelligent people who think sensibly about the economy, who are not self-interested.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not saying that to you. I'm not saying that to you. I've been trying to get these guys to speak to me for a long time.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, but the thing is, they don't make a huge amount of money. They are there because they don't need the money. They come from rich families. They come from rich families already. They don't need the money.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was quite shocked, and I tried to explain to you that was wrong. I said, okay, I'm going to go, I'm going to send you the data. I went back, I sent you the data. He said, oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. We have been wrong. We have mispredicted interest rates. We have mispredicted the strength of the broad economy for 10 years. That was it. He wasn't interested in talking. These guys have been wrong on the big economic issue of our time for 10 years in a row. This guy hadn't even noticed. These guys are so bad they are unable to recognize that they are bad. I cannot explain to you how serious this situation is. Listen, I know I do patronize them, but the truth is they're terrible. They're terrible and the world's falling apart. And they themselves get rich while it happens.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are very unlikely to be many if any. Economists from working class backgrounds in the public debate. So the end result is the vast majority of economists in public background either couldn't get a job in finance because their grades weren't good enough or they were so rich it doesn't matter. That's the truth. And these guys, they went and saw the best students go work in the city, make millions of pounds. They went and locked themselves in a library in Oxford for 10 years and they don't appreciate somebody coming back after making millions of pounds after beating them in undergrad and saying, well, can I explain to you? Listen, let me say what happened when I worked at Oxford, right? I went back to Oxford. We had the electron interest rates. And I was at that point one of the most successful interest rate traders in the world. And we had at that point incorrectly predicted that interest rates would go back up 10 years in a row. And I went to him and said, why do you think we're so bad at predicting interest rates? This is an Oxford macroeconomics professor. He said, no, no, no, you're wrong. We always knew rates were stay zero for 10 years. This is in 2017. That's just categorically wrong.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a good point. I did economics. I'm smart There's some important background here to understand, which is that when you study economics, the vast majority of economic students want to work in finance and work in finance is enormously better paid than working in any form of economic public service. And the vast majority of the best students will go into finance. Some of them will choose to go into public service. But you have to consider, imagine you are a young LSE student that has good enough grades to get a job as a trader and you are not from a rich background. If you go and work in academia, government, central banking, you are going to have to do a master's, a PhD, a postdoc, and you're not going to make any money for 20 years. You're going to be massively in debt by the time you make money. I was a multi-millionaire at 25. And when my brother needed to buy a house, I helped him. Now my sister needs to buy a house. I'm helping her. The truth is the nature of our economy and academics means that”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember when I was here and I was a kid, somebody saying to me, if you want to be successful, you've got to change how you talk. And I remember what I said to him. I said, if I have to change how I talk, there's no point being successful. Listen, I know there's a deeply entrenched prejudice in this country that people who sound posh are smart and people who sound working class are stupid.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know, I don't directly lobby the politicians because I think that I was writing for The Guardian and I switched to doing the YouTube because I thought that the fact that I look how I do and sound how I do will make the working class want to listen to me. But that same thing is a disadvantage when I talk to economists, when I talk to academics, when I talk to politicians, when I talk to, to be honest, a lot of the media until it's become... So, I don't lobby them directly, but I work with people who do.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everybody knows that we will get something new in politics. And it is really obvious what the loudest idea lying around now is, which is the far right. And the second loudest idea is us, tax the rich. So if you are a billionaire and you know that politics is going to move either towards the far right or tax the rich, what are you going to do? You are going to fund the far right and they are doing it aggressively. Look at what Elon Musk is doing. These guys know that they don't want to pay higher taxes and they are correct that the way to prevent yourself from having to pay high taxes is to aggressively fund the far right. And I'm out here with a Patreon, you know what I mean?”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everybody in the street knows the political center has failed. Everybody knows. So something has to change. There's a quote from Milton Friedman, American economist. At times of crisis, the new ideal will be chosen from the ideas lying around at the time.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's two ways to make money in media you sell news to the public or you sell the public to the rich. There's two ways to make money in politics. You convince the public, you sell the public to the rich. Listen, when I first left trading, the first thing I wanted to do was go to work for a think tank. This is the obvious thing to do. And I want to look for a left-wing think tank because you think these guys are going to be doing work on inequality. I went, I volunteered at a left-wing think tank in London. There was nobody working on inequality. You know why? Because they couldn't get funding for it. So the problem you have here is that the rich are aggressively going to try to prevent any increase on their taxation. When I was writing the book, I was reading hard times, Charles Dickens. There's a section in there where they talk about how the rich were saying if the government raises any taxes on them, they're going to take their factories and throw them into the sea. This is 150 years ago. You know, the problem you have is the rich are going to fight it every step of the way. They are winning. They're obviously winning. And they're funding groups like Nigel Farage. They're funding the far right all over the world. And it's obvious why.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I know who funds these analyses. I know it's private wealth funds. Listen, I've been doing this work. So, you know, I'm relatively high profile the last two years. I've been doing this work in public for five years. And for years and years and years, I would go on LBC and talk radio and I would say we need to tax the rich for free. And I would go up against somebody who works for the IEA and is paid by a billionaire. This is the truth. Listen, you know it as well as I know.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then Jeremy Hunt went and bought seven homes at the same time. So the problem you have is people like me go out and say, you need a wealth tax. Tax wealth not work. Reduce tax on working people. Raise tax on the rich. When they bring these in, there are a lot of very wealthy, very powerful people who have the ear of the politicians, can influence the politicians, in many cases are the politicians. And they say, yeah, fine. tax the rich but you can't you can't do it like that and they fill it with loopholes and it ends up getting put in in a way that the actual really rich end up getting through the gaps and it hits the middle class it's the fish rots from the head down if you do not catch the people at the very top they will eat up all the wealth over time so i think the risk is basically poor implementation such that you end up not getting the very rich and you end up hitting enough”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If it's badly implemented, always remember, do you remember when the Conservatives brought in extra tax on second home buyers? I was surprised by that because for me I see the conservatives as basically a group that represents the economic interests of the very rich and they bring in the second home tax and I was surprised. So I looked into it. There was an exemption for people who bought seven or more at once.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I vote for the Greens last time. But I'm in a safe seat. Because the Greens adopted my wealth tax policy in their manifesto. So, I mean, it would be pretty remiss of me not to vote for the single guys who literally adopted my policy.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, and there is no hard left, right? In most countries, so listen, people are correct to demand change and to insist that they will no longer vote for establishment political parties who have presided over, significantly, increasingly rapid force of living standards for 20 years.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listen, Obama's big slogan was hope and change. Where are living standards now compared to an Obama came in for the average Middle American? They're lower. They're significantly lower. So, you know, people will vote for sensible hope, sensible change, sensible change. It is obvious that the political center is and will continue to fail on the economy. And it's not obvious to the people who are speaking about it because they're rich.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What it is across the Western world, people are voted centre-right, centre left, centre-right, centre-left, and they've repeatedly seen increasingly rapid falls in living standards. So, you know, people will vote.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you just have to recognize that the average person is not super interested in politics and they're not super aware of politics. What people see, I'm always, you probably didn't see, there was a sort of meme video that went around a few years ago of an ice skating race and they're going around and around the track. And just before the finish line, one of the skaters falls over and he takes out the whole line. They're all neck and neck. And there was one guy who's like nearly left behind, comes around and wins. For me, that's Farach. And that's also Trump. And that's the whole far right.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no. They've gone the other direction. But what will happen in the US is the US will continue to grow and Livingstanders will continue to fall for the average person. It's the same thing that's happening here. You know, the US has the same problem.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think there are a lot of reasons the US is growing quicker. I think you've seen they've moved into things like fracking, they've moved into things like tech, they managed to capture big tech. We have to accept the fact that the US didn't. The US is a much larger country with much more natural resources per person, has much lower population density. It has some natural advantages. It's managed to capture some industries.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Have you heard this term that was bouncing around a lot in the US economics and political discourse the last couple of years, the vibes are off? Have you heard that term? The vibes are off. So, for people who don't know, this is the idea that basically Americans think they're getting poorer, but they're really not. They're just idiots, actually they're getting richer. Listen, again, I went to elite economic universities, and now I exist in a kind of politics media space. Most people are relatively rich, relatively financially comfortable. I don't think living standards are getting better for the average American. But the problem you have is, you know, the problem with the crisis of inequality, which is, as you say, if you have a broad economic weakening, everybody will say this is bad. The problem of a crisis of inequality is it looks great for the top 1% and it looks pretty good for the top 5%. How many people outside of the top 5% are in this conversation? Top level politics, top level economics, top-level academia, top level media, top-level central banking. Basically what you have is you have a bifurcating economy. You have an economy which is splitting. The top 1% is aggressively splitting off and the top 5% are kind of hang on to their coattails.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's not just about wealth, but if the picture is of a broadly weakening economy, why is basically every stock market in the world at an all-time record high? Why is the wealth of the rich and the super rich in this country at an all-time high? So this character, and don't get me wrong, there are other economic problems in this country, in other countries. But if the situation is of a broad economic weakening, then why are the rich and the super rich aggressively, extremely rapidly getting richer”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Groups cannot compete, and what you see is the loss of middle class wealth holding. And the reason that Living Standards have been good in the West for the last 70 years is because we have had an unusually wealth-holding middle class. That is not the norm internationally. That is not the norm historically. We will lose that. It is as simple as that. These guys, if you allow, once they get to a certain level of wealth, they have no choice but to rapidly expand their wealth, which means the loss of wealth. And this is why you're seeing, look at government wealth. This is why middle class people can't afford homes. because they are being out compete. They are being squeezed out by this growing super rich class.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's not from your work. Four million pounds a month. So a million pounds a week. You have a passive income of a million pounds a week. Imagine you are that person. And bear in mind there are people who are much, much richer than that. You have a passive income of £1 million a week. How much do you spend in a week? I massively struggled to spend £10,000 a week. So you spend £10,000 a week, you live like the queen, and then you have £990,000 a week to invest. The problem is the economy is not significantly growing. So the only thing you can do is buy existing assets. So what happens is these very wealthy people, they basically have no choice but to buy up existing assets from the middle class, from the government.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is why that's the most, the clearest way to explain this is, imagine you are a billionaire, you have a wealth of one billion pounds. What people often don't realize is the passive income that generates. So if you have a wealth of £1 billion, you will have a passive income of something like 50 million pounds a year. That's from your wealth, income from your wealth.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, definitely. And Farage will win the next election. He will also fail on the economy, and Labour will get back in, they'll fail on the economy, and what will follow Farage will be something further right.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, listen, this is going to get much, much worse very, very quickly. You know, you and I are sitting on the Titanic and the iceberg is over there and you've just asked me, you know, maybe we need to think about whether boats are the best way to cross the Atlantic. And that's a good question. There are probably big things we could change. If you don't change this very, very, very quickly living standards are going to fall very, very quickly.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Listen, I'm an economist, okay? Three years at LSE, mass in economics, two years at Oxford Economics, five, six years in the city predicting on the future of the economy. I've made millions of pounds betting on the collapse of the economy. I made an enormous amount of money betting the collapse of the economy after COVID. I can tell you now, with absolute certainty, and I would like you to remember this because I know I do things like this, that people go home and they say, oh, that guy, young guy, he's passionate, he's a bit naive. Remember this because I will be correct. In five years' time, the economy, in terms of living standards for ordinary people, will be massively worse than it is now. I guarantee you that. I guarantee you that.”
2025-07-27 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 145. Gary Stevenson: Masculinity, Money, and the Myth of Meritocracy (Part 2) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source