| Today's cheery Guardian read..... 08:28 - Jan 24 with 1700 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Sorry Ullers x
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/24/i-was-a-multimillionaire-i-had-a-b
Market movements, market trends: these are all just a disembodied way of saying “rich people”. And Stevenson knows a lot about the rich. After all, he’s one of them, thanks to his years at Citibank and an even more profitable second act trading for his own account. Since 2020 he’s been running a YouTube channel, GarysEconomics, explaining to his 620,000 subscribers how the rich have grabbed everyone else’s money.
“The rich have got a choice,” he says. “They can lend the money to the government or they can buy the assets. I know what I’m doing.”“OK, what’s that?” I ask, trepidatiously, knowing the answer.
“I’m buying the assets. Stocks, gold, commodities, property, everything. The rich have got a lot of money, they can buy everything. The government has got to compete with that. They can’t. They’re trying to play chess with no pieces.”
“I pitched this book to Penguin in 2022,” he says, “and said to them, ‘If you think the economy is bad now, wait until this book comes out. Politics and economics are increasingly gonna be everything people care about, because this gets worse. The world’s falling apart, and it’s not gonna get better.’”
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:31 - Jan 24 with 1647 views | giant_stow |
Fck a duck, cherry stuff....!
I'm emigrating to mars. |  |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:36 - Jan 24 with 1604 views | Essen_blue |
that is Gary economics I have watched a few of his youtube shows. |  | | |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:43 - Jan 24 with 1557 views | noggin |
People like Gary Stevenson and Akala should be the role models for the British people. Instead Yaxley Lennon and Farage seem to be the spokesmen for the working class. [Post edited 24 Jan 8:43]
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:53 - Jan 24 with 1504 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:31 - Jan 24 by giant_stow |
Fck a duck, cherry stuff....!
I'm emigrating to mars. |
Trump’s already claimed Mars! | | | |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:57 - Jan 24 with 1475 views | WeWereZombies |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:53 - Jan 24 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
Trump’s already claimed Mars! |
Only because he thinks it is where all the gutfill chocolate bars come from... |  |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:58 - Jan 24 with 1472 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:43 - Jan 24 by noggin |
People like Gary Stevenson and Akala should be the role models for the British people. Instead Yaxley Lennon and Farage seem to be the spokesmen for the working class. [Post edited 24 Jan 8:43]
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Probably because the two main parties left a vacuum for Farage and co. I see it as a push factor as much as the pull of Reform etc. Jezza had the manifesto, but turned everyone off with his student politics and wacky foreign policy. Nobody has yet worked out what Starmer stands for other than less outrightly corrupt than the Tories.
What policies are they implementing in Norway to tax the super rich- given there are more billionaires per capita than most of Europe including the UK? | | | |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 09:37 - Jan 24 with 1324 views | noggin |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:58 - Jan 24 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
Probably because the two main parties left a vacuum for Farage and co. I see it as a push factor as much as the pull of Reform etc. Jezza had the manifesto, but turned everyone off with his student politics and wacky foreign policy. Nobody has yet worked out what Starmer stands for other than less outrightly corrupt than the Tories.
What policies are they implementing in Norway to tax the super rich- given there are more billionaires per capita than most of Europe including the UK? |
"What policies are they implementing in Norway to tax the super rich- given there are more billionaires per capita than most of Europe including the UK?"
To be honest, I don't really follow Norwegian politics. Firstly, I don't have a vote so can't influence it, and secondly, most Norwegians seem quite satisfied with their day to day lives. | |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 09:42 - Jan 24 with 1277 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 08:31 - Jan 24 by giant_stow |
Fck a duck, cherry stuff....!
I'm emigrating to mars. |
I’m off to stockpile gold. Just as soon as I’ve rummaged down the back of the sofa. |  |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 09:43 - Jan 24 with 1267 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 09:37 - Jan 24 by noggin |
"What policies are they implementing in Norway to tax the super rich- given there are more billionaires per capita than most of Europe including the UK?"
To be honest, I don't really follow Norwegian politics. Firstly, I don't have a vote so can't influence it, and secondly, most Norwegians seem quite satisfied with their day to day lives. |
“most Norwegians seem quite satisfied with their day to day lives”
I guess being a petro-state has its upsides. | | | |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 09:46 - Jan 24 with 1252 views | noggin |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 09:43 - Jan 24 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
“most Norwegians seem quite satisfied with their day to day lives”
I guess being a petro-state has its upsides. |
It does if the government invest the profits for future generations. Britain decided not to do that. | |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 09:59 - Jan 24 with 1184 views | giant_stow |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:01 - Jan 24 with 1173 views | lowhouseblue |
he seems very impressed with himself - more so than zoe perhaps. |  |
| And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:15 - Jan 24 with 1097 views | Swansea_Blue |
And the odd thing about that is that they’ve got a left/centre government that should be more attuned to the environment impact. Pragmatic from an economic point of view, but at what greater cost? This is always going to be the danger. We’re seeing it with offsetting and carbon credits. Having a good environmental performance (which Norway does have) is always going to be seen as a justification to continue oil and gas production. As if one could balance out the other. Much like people justify their flights by throwing a few quid into an offsetting scheme. It’s largely greenwash and is not actually leading to a reduction in emissions.
We’re fked. It’s probably a good time to invest in construction companies and we’re about to see an explosion of flood defence work. | |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:17 - Jan 24 with 1072 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
The same Britain that’s announced no more E&P licenses in the North Sea? Britain which has the 23rd highest carbon footprint per capita in Europe?
You are clutching here - that is absolutely a moral high ground whilst Norway not only enthusiastically continues to open new fields, but also controversially in the Artic. Only Russia exports more carbon in Europe. | | | |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:29 - Jan 24 with 999 views | noggin |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:17 - Jan 24 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
The same Britain that’s announced no more E&P licenses in the North Sea? Britain which has the 23rd highest carbon footprint per capita in Europe?
You are clutching here - that is absolutely a moral high ground whilst Norway not only enthusiastically continues to open new fields, but also controversially in the Artic. Only Russia exports more carbon in Europe. |
And Britain buys it. Make of that what you will. I definitely don't support continued drilling of fossil fuels but digging me out for it won't help. Until there is a global plan for a carbon free world, it will continue . Like I said, I don't have a vote so can't try to influence the politicians. I didn't bring Norway or it's fossil fuels policies into this thread. | |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:48 - Jan 24 with 928 views | NthQldITFC |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:17 - Jan 24 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
The same Britain that’s announced no more E&P licenses in the North Sea? Britain which has the 23rd highest carbon footprint per capita in Europe?
You are clutching here - that is absolutely a moral high ground whilst Norway not only enthusiastically continues to open new fields, but also controversially in the Artic. Only Russia exports more carbon in Europe. |
It's a relative moral high ground for sure, but there's not one government of the so-called developed world of growth-obsessed, aggressively capitalist, maximum consumer wnakfest-driven, lemmings that doesn't reside in the moral marshland. |  |
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| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 12:32 - Jan 24 with 819 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Today's cheery Guardian read..... on 10:48 - Jan 24 by NthQldITFC |
It's a relative moral high ground for sure, but there's not one government of the so-called developed world of growth-obsessed, aggressively capitalist, maximum consumer wnakfest-driven, lemmings that doesn't reside in the moral marshland. |
Ahhh but what do you really mean? | |
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