Gary Stevenson believes public-facing economists in government, academia, and media are often not primarily trying to be right, but rather focused on winning elections, publishing papers, or getting clicks.

Gary Stevenson believes that strong mechanisms prevent talented economics students from poor backgrounds from becoming academics, as they cannot afford the low pay compared to finance careers.

Gary Stevenson believes that politicians, university economists, central bank economists, and media economists, whose job it is to fix global economic issues, are 'definitely not going to fix it.'

Rory Stewart stated that Gary Stevenson is not a professional economist but a city trader who studied an undergraduate degree in economics.

Gary Stevenson believes social media is the "real big angle of attack" for increasing the salience of wealth taxes and inequality.

Gary Stevenson spent three years on YouTube and in the media, predicting events related to COVID-19 in 2020, and believes everything he said happened exactly as predicted.