How to stop the economy from collapsing - Gary Stevenson

21st March 2025

Gary Stevenson was highly successful trader and more recently makes videos about economics and is widely acknowledge to be on of the most successful at explaining the topic.

Gary Stevenson (born 1986) is a British economist, former financial trader, and YouTuber known for his economic analysis and activism against economic inequality.

From a Mormon single-income working class background in Ilford, Stevenson won a scholarship to study for a BSc in economics and mathematics at the London School of Economics, before becoming a financial trader at Citibank in 2008 at age 21.

Stevenson became a millionaire in the wake of the great recession by betting on a large increase in economic inequality, and that growing poverty would cause interest rates to stay low. By trading on this prediction, he claims to have been Citibank's most profitable trader globally in 2011.
In 2014, Stevenson retired from financial trading to study for an MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford. In 2020, he started the YouTube-channel GarysEconomics, where he campaigns against economic inequality and explains economic concepts to a wider audience.

The problem is the rich are taking everything - and the rest of us are being impoverished.

But what's the solution, and how do we achieve it?.

Timestamps.

00:00 Intro
01:15 The problem
04:58 Tax the rich?
09:48 Why economists won't save us
16:40 Politics is broken
23:00 The problem is foreigners parties
28:55 How the right win
31:57 We can win
37:27 It's scary
39:12 What you can do