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Is the economy on the brink of collapse? Gary Stevenson and Daniel Priestley break down the emergency financial crisis no one is talking about The Diary Of A CEO’s economics debate is joined by 2 experts: Gary Stevenson and Daniel Priestley. Gary Stevenson is a British economist, former financial trader, and author of The Trading Game. Daniel Priestly is an award-winning serial entrepreneur who has written 5 books on starting and scaling businesses. 00:00 Intro 02:04 Who Is Gary Stevenson? 07:19 Who Is Daniel Priestley? 09:53 The Importance of Economic Freedom 11:46 Who Are We Blaming for the Economic Situation? 13:22 The UK & US Debt We're Carrying From COVID 17:34 Is There Financial Security for Most of Us in 2025? 26:03 What Does Gary Think of Daniel's Views? 28:47 The Current Homeownership Situation 34:11 US vs UK Market With Building Technology 36:28 Taxing Billionaires 40:52 Do You Tax Their Value or the Countries Where They Trade? 45:25 Why Are Millionaires Leaving the UK? 48:39 Stopping Profit Shifting of Companies 52:29 How $10M+ Companies Avoid Taxes 57:51 Where Is the Biggest Amount of Money Going? 59:56 How to Bring Big Tech Companies and Entrepreneurs to the UK 01:04:34 Are Tax Evasions Causing Issues With NHS, Education, and Higher Crime? 01:10:20 Why Poor People Are Struggling to Build Wealth 01:19:39 Ads 01:20:43 How to Create Wealth in the Economy 01:37:07 Monopolies 01:40:08 Advice to Younger People 01:47:01 Take Action: Play the Cards You Are Dealt 01:51:35 Do We Have Personal Responsibility to Change This? 01:53:55 Is the Current Education System Failing Us? 02:00:45 Inheritance Taxes 02:04:40 Ads 02:09:55 America's Approach to Building Wealth 02:12:23 What to Do At An Individual & Government Level Research Document: https://stevenbartlett.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DOAC-debate-Gary-Daniel-Independent-research.pdf Follow Gary: YouTube - https://g2ul0.app.link/xdrUsPgERRb Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/OoThWmfERRb Follow Daniel: X - https://g2ul0.app.link/3ui4EJjERRb Instagram - https://g2ul0.app.link/Wa2RfsaHRRb Website - https://g2ul0.app.link/jUbxNu8GRRb Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACEpisodes My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://g2ul0.app.link/DOACBook You can purchase the The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: Second Edition, here: https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb Follow me: https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Fiverr - http://fiverr.com/diary with code DIARY for 10% off your first order WHOOP - https://JOIN.WHOOP.COM/CEO Intuit - https://www.intuit.com/careers/ Perfect Ted - https://www.perfectted.com with code DIARY40 for 40% off
"I'm I'm sick of multi-millionaires telling kids who can't afford to turn the heating on you just need to be more entrepreneurial it's sick Dan it's sick well your video where you talk about if you don..."
"few times before so I want to start with Gary and understand a little bit about your backstory and who you are and having been through the trading game and read and watched many many of your videos ov..."
"trying to avoid Daniel where did you come from yeah so I grew up in Australia um and I was born to low-income family I grew up in a place that had 24% Unemployment uh pretty much the only jobs or oppo..."
"thing called the economic freedom index and the economic freedom index basically says how economically free are you how how much access do you have to free markets um do can you start a business can y..."
"it's very different because in the US we blame us blam someone different to the UK so we have a historical cultural memory in the UK we have a cultural memory that the people to blame are the rich so ..."
"have a lot to to say there I know you both use the word collapsing so you agree that there's a problem here but I think you from studying both of your sort of perspectives you think that this the solu..."
"a question yeah go for do you think the average Brit American Australian whoever the person out there is watching if they quit their job and go work in Tech do you think they'll be able to get Financi..."
"know what Daniel thinks and I want our viewers to be able to research Daniel's opinions but how how do you disagree with those opinions listen Daniel's a businessman he's obviously a very successful b..."
"I'm measuring people by the average I want to know what the average man or woman today lives that by the way I I'm also Furious about the home ownership thing everyone is um I think it's utterly ridic..."
"built a technology Powerhouse and the UK has completely lost our technology industry our tech industry is in Decline same same across Europe China and the us know that the game is Tech and they've bas..."
"more so he pays 0.6% a year Pro 0.6% that would be the same as what percent did I pay per no no no but that's 60% so you're saying I pay what 60 of a 0.6 what 100 times the tax not comparing apples wi..."
"Island and the US says we're going to tax your Revenue at point of sale M what can you do well that's different right because that's not taxing billionaires that's taxing companies see when you say ta..."
"they're taxing their world because we don't have any wealth taxes why why do you think they're leaving I think the reason they're leaving is because the UK economy is is really really weak because the..."
"shifting listen these guys are not gandal you just say we don't accept profit shifting we don't need to accept profit shifting China does not accept profit shifting we did not accept profit shifting 5..."
"worth more than 10 million pounds so if we tax people on as Gary says that have more than 10 million what are your options to avoid say if your objective was to avoid that what options do you have loo..."
"wealth going Daniel where is the wealth going who has the wealth now who is getting rich who is getting the wealth that is lost by our viewers I'll tell you where the biggest amounts of money are goin..."
"businesses that to thrive you don't need just a good environment for entrepreneurs you also need people to have money that they can spend MH and we are in a country where increasingly most of the peop..."
"that my friend sold his company in the UK it's a company everybody knows um and he I remember him saying to me at the time it was in the middle of the pandemic he got this big exit event I think he'd ..."
"that these creators are the sole reason these companies are are valuable sure you know and what we're talking about in many cases you know I was a Trader okay and I'm worth a millions of quid and you ..."
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"I want to take this back to a point you were talking about earlier which is about personal agency because I would like you Daniel to give the counter to your own argument because I want to make sure w..."
"way I I actually really agree with you and the founding fathers of the US they did um especially around the 1900s they did want to break up monopolies and break up monopolies was one of the big things..."
"question for both of you which is if you are a young person and you're 18 years old now and that you're listening to this but your objective really is an individualistic one you want to get rich and y..."
"answer I think there's two economies going on at the moment there's a dying economy which is the Industrial Revolution economy um and that is all the office jobs and the factory jobs and all of that s..."
"there something that I can do if I'm sat here listening at home I understand everything you said I believe everything you said I I I believe that it's going to get worse for me do you think I should s..."
"off the back of the golden age of capitalism when ordinary people like my dad you know I grew up in ilford it's in East London it's a very immigrant area most of my friends I grew up with come from Pa..."
"mean it's probably worth pointing out that we're not taxing wealth and you're leaving the country anyway Stephen no I haven't left the country okay you're going I'm I'm a tax resident here I pay my ta..."
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"talk about slashing of the state they're going to use these examples like oh there's this wasteful government building everybody wants to slash government waste of course I'm not going to fight agains..."
"start with you Gary based on everything we've discussed today um what is I'm going to ask you to to give me two perspectives which is if I'm a young individual in this country right now what should I ..."