Gary Stevenson, an ex-city trader once considered the world's top trader despite losing $8 million in a week!

Very interesting watch 👀

THE TRADING GAME,

A review by Carlo Kureishi and Hanif Kureishi

The first time I came across Gary Stevenson was on a politics podcast two years ago. This cockney-voiced, artful dodger-like, ex-city trader’s scalding analysis of the present economic situation was bracing.

This week's video - Passive Income
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Daniel Priestley Jemma Forte The Trawl Gary Stevenson There's socialism alright... for the rich.

An interesting article - PhD Economists at the Bank of England feel underused and poorly incentivised to forecast well.

Modern (academic) economics is terrified of forecasting - it's no wonder their forecasts are wrong when they do it.

Recognize and reward good forecasters!!

This week's video:

Why Growth is Stupid

Enjoy!
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Gary Stevenson was once Citibank’s highest-paid trader. Here’s what he learned on.ft.com/3xO2Fq0

Great work from Patriotic Millionaires UK!

I'm on this!
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It's really good this pod. Tho I guess Luke Cooper has cut the bit where I go 'I dunno why Luke has such a bee in his bonnet about misogyny'

PODCAST 📣

In his brilliant book, Gary Stevenson puts the microscope over a world the vast majority will never know. And if they did, they’d be horrified. It’s a story of misogyny, money and raw power.

Tune in 📻 with Luke Cooper and @[email protected]
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Bit more German press coverage

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This week we answer THE most commonly asked question on the channel -

How do I get rich?
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£180k is the average for the top 10%. Imagine what the top 1% will be getting....

This is why your kids can't buy a house.
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Anyone out there who is knowledgeable on the Swedish economy - is it true that Sweden ran virtually no government deficit over Covid?

Sell me this podcast 🤑

On this week's episode, we chat to former financial trader @GarysEconomics.

We learn all about how a trading floor works and most importantly if it's anything like The Wolf of Wall Street.

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There are 55 billionaires in the UK.

A 1% wealth tax on them and the very richest could raise £22bn a year.

Enough to pay 276,000 nurses AND double dental funding in England, with change to spare.

Our exec diector Robert Palmer in the Guardian.

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A poor boy from Illford…

Who became Citibank’s most profitable trader in the world

A millionaire at 25

By betting on the growth of economic inequality

He jacked it all in

& now campaigns to show how rigged the system is

We met him

It was never going to be boring, was it?

Channel update this week about all the mentalness of the last month
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