Gary Stevenson believes that people who are very good at understanding economic collapse can get paid millions in finance but cannot advise the British government for free.

The best-paid job for economics graduates when Gary Stevenson was at university (around 2006-2008) was working as a trader.

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 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.