Understanding the past can help you shape the future. In the Victorian era technological innovation created massive new wealth, but it was concentrated in the hands of the few. Can we change things NOW to avoid the same desperate poverty most Victorians lived and died in?

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What I talk about in this episode:(00:00) Intro(01:50) Ghosts of Christmas Past(06:00) Technology may not fix our problems(09:20) History shows us change is possible(13:10) Christmas Present: where are we now?(20:45) Desperation for change(22:09) The future

Gary's back for one episode only. Here's what the UK Budget next week means for you, the economy and democracy.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) Intro

(1:04) Raising taxes

(04:30) UK government debt situation

(09:12) Transfer of wealth to rich

(13:22) Why aren’t they taxing the rich?

(18:40) The elites don’t care

(26:00) The death of democracy

(28:32) What do you do?

(31:15) Hope

(33:08) Know your history

(36:41) Help me get to #1

I'm wrapping things up for now. I'll be back in a few months.

These are the other channels and orgs I think you should follow:

Patriotic Millionaires UK's X

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski's Youtube

JimmyTheGiant's Youtube

Meditations of an Anxious Mind's Youtube

Forest Jar's Insta

Anna Bocca's Youtube

Barry's Economics's Youtube

Louisa Munch's Tiktok

Novara Media's Youtube

Unlearning Economics's Youtube

Punters Politics's Youtube

Chloe Swarbrick's Insta

Ha Joon Chang's Website

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CHAPTERS

(00:00) Intro

(00:24) Why I’m stopping

(03:08) My predictions

(04:34) The rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric

(07:28) We’ve had massive growth

(10:08) Who you should follow

(13:45) Why this is important

(15:23) What’s next?

Labour refuse to acknowledge and deal with the rising tide of inequality in the UK. Will this doom them to fail, or can we get through to them?

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(00:00) Intro

(03:20) How they view the world

(10:00) Why they won’t listen to me

(24:20) They’re stuck in a bubble

(26:50) Reform are the reckoning

(30:35) Is Labour doomed to fail?

(32:12) My message to Labour MPs

Is the Labour government failing to change anything because of bad choices – or because the economic situation makes them powerless to act?

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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

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?

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

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

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

We're winning the wealth tax argument in the media: more and more people support the idea. But what would a wealth tax actually look like and would do we implement it? Is it even workable?