2024 was hard, exciting and worthwhile How was yours?

[@VictoriaFirmstone]

Hit 240k today. Appreciate you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 24k in September 2024.,

[@VictoriaFirmstone]

I will be forever thankful to you, you changed my life I will continue to speak on your behalf for the world to hear that you saved me from huge financial debt with just a little trade, thank you Jihan Wu you're such a life saver

[@HollyGarwell]

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[@RichardArthurBaker]

His guidance allowed me to restructure my retirement plan, resulting in an estimated $700,000 more by the time I retire.

[@lalsingh7340]

I'm favoured, 90K every week! I can now give back to the locals in my communities and also support God's work and the church. God bless America,, thank you Mr Jihan Wu😊🎉

[@brendanlea3605]

Discovering you was one of the good things that happened to me in 2024. Thank you for your work Richard.

[@MargaretDeakin-d6m]

Thank you Richard for all you have done. I am very happy to hear that you will continues to inform me and your wider audience in 2025, about the effects of Neoliberal Politics, and hopefully inspire us to make the changes required to address the innequalities that devastate individuals and communities.End child poverty. End poverty.Increase wellbeing and health.Happy new year🎈🎈🎈⭐🌟✴🌟⭐♥♥♥

[@Sujki19]

Best wishes for the third stage of your career and for 2025. It is good to listen to your good advice and common sense, there are a lot of us out here who want the change you propose and believe it can be done. It seems so obvious but many of those who govern us choose not to listen. Keep up the good work, we need it.

[@Mark234-y8r]

Hit 250k today. Appreciate you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 24k in July 2024

[@Robert253-m9h]

This must be an investment with Mrs Geraldine Ann Philip

[@AbramAcierno]

Wow! Kind of in shock you mentioned expert, Geraldine Ann Philips. What a coincidence!!

[@Mark234-y8r]

⠀ She helped me recover what I lost trying to trade myself

[@Mark234-y8r]

Geraldine Ann Philip understanding the market indicators is impressive. She knows exactly when to enter and exit trades for maximum profits. her siignals are top notch

[@Gaylord-o4g]

That's amazing, I've seen different people talking about this Geraldine Ann, she must be a cool woman for people to talk this about her,how do you people earn money?

[@johannagarda]

Thanks for your great work dear Richard. Social Media & even MSM have been develping into extremism of all directions. Thus people talking sense and with vast knowledge like you and some others are urgently needed on media stage these days.. Don't retire from your audience Richard, please don't!!! For me, fortunately, nothing has changed in 2024. Everything remains great and beautiful, but my relatives in other countries have been experiencing some negative things this 2024 indeed.

[@kim007250]

Can’t keep expecting growth with only finite resources….we need to think smarter.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

Shhhh, Scotland produces way more energy than they need, but England takes a large chunk, gratis with added contempt, pipelines piping the stuff to your front door lol. Shhh, don't mention Scotland's vast water resources...yikes. With investment and innovation, humans being quite clever in many ways, then resources are not 'finite'. Also, 'growth', most people just want a more equal society, a decent living, and properly renumerated for the work they do. Not too much to ask. Reduce, reuse, recycle, so old fashioned now?

[@georgestewart1983]

@@SaveEarthPlsBeKind At least you have cheap energy !

[@davidmcculloch8490]

Great work, prof. You clearly care about society, while calling out the danger of neoliberalism. Change is long overdue and you are one of the few making the case.

[@ProgressiveEconomicsSupporter]

Dear Richard, you made a very great job to get us all.much more enlightened on so many economic topics. I thank you so very much, your explanations are the best out there!! 🙏🇩🇪

[@theabyssalvault4238]

My 2024 has been much like every year of my life so far. I have been hopeless, beaten down and I struggle to want to get out of bed to face a hostile world. I discovered your videos this year and it has been nice to see that someone out there seems to want a better society but I'm a pessimistic realist who sees very little hope of change as every step I have taken in the past to change things for the better, both personally and for society, have ended badly until I have basically given up. I'm glad that some people have had a better 2024 than I but I'm also bitter at that fact too.

[@And-i8j]

2024 was not easy, I run my own business and I think the economy and the country are in a downward spiral with no end. I don’t see matters improving and judging by Labour’s performance so far, I don’t see Labour have the answers to our problems. I attribute our current woes back to 2008, for which we have never recovered and to a succession of politicians who have made grave in-correct. choices and in some cases have committed gross malfeasance in office. Neoliberalism caused the 2008 crisis and it has not gone away.

[@woofpet]

Thank you so much for all you have done to wake people up to what goes on and what better alternatives could provide. You bring hope and inspiration in the midst of all the doom and gloom. Greatly appreciated your daily videos over the past months - always the first thing I turn to with my morning coffee. Thanks to Thomas too for his work on this channel. Good health and good luck to you for the coming year.

[@janeknight3597]

You have hit your stride now. Thank you so much for presenting an alternative view. Happy New Year🎉

[@pendolinoable]

Thank you for what you are doing, and for educating me. I also retired this year, and was looking for something to explain the weird and alien situation we are now living in.

[@plbyrne]

Love your work Richard. Keep on keeping on.

[@stephengreen5628]

Glad you are going to keep going in pushing forward good ideas and what we need as a society.

[@SaveEarthPlsBeKind]

Have a guid New Year Richard, thanks and see you in 2025. Looking forward with much trepidation.

[@MJ.2K]

Found your channel this year boss. We appreciate all the knowledge and ideas you share!

[@stickyreturn]

Thank you Richard I have learned so much.

[@juliewake4585]

Thanks immensely for this Richard. I’ve only recently discovered this and I love what you have to say.

[@leebanting6676]

Here is hoping all goes well ...looking foward to learning from you

[@j5nnyt]

Thank you for your wisdom. BTW - I love listening to your voice.

[@laurietaylor8982]

I just find it so inspiring to hear this Richard. What I hear from you is wisdom…something that is in very short supply generally. I’m with you all the way. Go gently. ❤

[@jilladams3807]

❤

[@MAAT313]

Bravo. Retirement goals!

[@alansdorsetfossils4028]

Please keep up the good work you are a breath of fresh air. As you say neo-liberalism has failed society and only serves to make a few people super rich. Hopefully with your growing following on channels like this finally it will be discredited once and for all. The University’s need to throw out these text books and train the economists of the future on a model that works for all in society.

[@graemeshort1928]

Thank you Richard you have made my year I really enjoy these early morning lessons at at 72 is till enjoy learning and growing up which is still an ambition of mine after my mother told me I would always be a child? Yes I understood what see meant.

[@Sara-wf1cu]

Love your channel, thanks for all your videos, I have learnt a lot! I have also bought some of your books (currently reading Dirty Secrets). Thanks for all your hard work and continuing your channel, and all the best for 2025!

[@12theotherandrew]

I look forward to hearing your ideas on what can come after neoliberalism now that it’s flaws are clearly visible. Talk of a mixed economy sounds “nice”, but the powerful do not give up their power willingly, and the neoliberals show every sign of fighting for yet more.

[@edpaul1434]

Thank you for your videos Prof Richard, always thoughtful. Personally I don't think 2024 has been bad though the cost-of-living crisis has really hit me. New clothes (much needed in some cases) and travel around UK or abroad are out of the question. Your thoughts on this awful crisis would be welcome. People hit by it know the real meaning of austerity.

[@glyngreen538]

Okayish. Made moderate progress on paying my old debts down (£10k down to £6k). Realised I have ADHD all my life so I’m on a years long wait list to get medication. Next year my goal is to learn to drive late in life as I’ll need that for when I hopefully retrain as an electrician to work with solar. Best of luck on your next year Richard or anyone else that happens to read this!

[@twogsds]

Good luck, wishing you success and happiness.

[@BillCarrIpswich]

ADHD is fake.

[@charleswillcock3235]

There's no escaping KZbin is a great communication channel.

[@paulcliffe8168]

This is a great channel, thank you for the time and effort you and your team put in. Happy new year.

[@UnderaPiscesMoon-nr5gz]

I set up a menopause support group at my local library and it's growing across the county. I'm 69 next month and retired but still useful 😊 happy new year everyone. I hope it's a good one

[@twogsds]

Well done, keep up your fine work, I am sure that your group is much appreciated! Such a great idea, women need women to support each other. I would like to find out more about what you did and do, maybe I could set up one here.

[@UnderaPiscesMoon-nr5gz]

​​@@twogsdsThank you. How do I get in touch with you. I'm not on SM for private messenger

[@george11419]

2024 has been fairly good for me too. The stock market has been steady and divs have been maintained. The economy has been going fairly well. I realise that I have to maintain a modest lifestyle in case the world economy turns sour in 2025.

[@eightiesmusic1984]

2024 was the forty fifth consecutive year of neoliberalism. When I had a serious road accident in 1985 on my push bike while going to a chip shop called Papas Fritas in Southport to buy some food before watching the Saturday omnibus edition of Brookside ( 21st December) I definitely used up one of my nine lives. Back then the nightmare of Thatcherism was a mere six years old, had caused critical damage but there was the prospect of ending if Labour could win an election. A mere thirty nine years later neoliberalism is as firmly entrenched as ever thanks to the red Tories who have continued the work of Blair in selling out the majority. I never did eat those chips but have caught up recently on the Brookside omnibus via the STV replays.

[@kierengreen391]

This channel is good content which is why I watch. Well done.

[@christophermckeown5785]

Richard, as a former Sheffield University student, I am very proud of you. I completely support your You Tube content and the message which you put forth. Your analysis now needs a bigger audience. You are right to focus on the You Tube work.

[@elvwood]

Personally, the year from 27th December 2023 was one of my worst ever, dealing with the consequences of events on that date as well as ongoing Long Covid. Even so, some things have improved (including my physical health). Politically, it's gone pretty much as I expected domestically except for Reform getting even bigger, and it's gone worse internationally. So not a lot to cheer about. Still, you have helped my understanding of economics, which is positive.

[@leejohnson3209]

You popped up in my recommended on YT earlier in the year. I'm glad you did. It's refreshing to hear a positive voice for change. I've been anti austerity since 2010. I've listened to the ideas of Mark Blyth and Yanis Varoufakis. Unfortunately governments are more interested in getting elected than doing what's best in the long term. I can't see anything changing under FPTP.

[@indricotherium4802]

I'd like to suggest that unless someone undertakes a lot of work on the psychology of the electorate, there is very little prospect for inspiring change in the MO of the Westminster political class. We saw how easily voters were manipulated in 2024 into holding just one thought - get the Tories out - and actively blocked and discouraged from any simultaneous thought on what we expected, demanded or needed from a change of government (with the all too predictable outcomes we are now seeing).

[@paulgibbons2320]

I have enjoyed your content very much this year. You are doing a better job of holding the government to account than the opposition. Much needed in the face of government turmoil. I do agree with many of your ideas. What are your thoughts on the rental sector in general. It is my personal opinion that this needs urgent address. Fair rent controls have become completely necessary. Apologies if you have already addressed this.

[@oneoflokis]

I wouldn't say that 2024 has been particularly "worthwhile", Richard! 😏 Still... Here's hoping for 2025.

[@donosawaru759]

When business and academy collaborate, great stuff often happens.

[@vélociti-001]

The worst yet was how it was with almost no chance of that changing. Happy New Year tho

[@Betweoxwitegan]

Great work, it's important to pace yourself effectively so you don't burnout, focus on things you want to do and when your hobby feels like a chore then take a break. A huge roadblock in net 0 has been Ai and datacenter expansion with carbon emmissions in the MAG7 spiking in Great work, it's important to pace yourself effectively so you don't burnout, focus on things you want to do and when your hobby feels like a chore then take a break. A huge roadblock in net 0 has been Ai and datacenter expansion with carbon emmissions in the MAG7 spiking in recent years due to increased temporary oil/gas usage, etc. Much work yet to be done.

[@christopherellis2663]

Apart from going back to Australia 🇦🇺 to renew my passport, fine. I now have a cat 🐈, a keyboard, and a new mattress My dividends cover the rent.

[@douglasreid9922]

I hope that a repressed Scotland finds it's voice and soul and moves towards, financial, social and cultural Independence.

[@stevo728822]

So you don't want Scotland to be a member of the EU?

[@twogsds]

Thank you Richard, I like to share your videos with my local Labour whatsapp group 😂😂😂

[@KeithPrince-cp3me]

Well I reached state retirement age, my bills and costs of living all increased, and had my first Christmas alone.

[@Dexter01992]

At the end of this year I took a general look at how things have turned out and I genuinely asked myself: "Is this gonna be the very last year of a somewhat normal life?"

[@maplin007]

2024 was the year I decided that at 62 I can't keep working in building nor do I want to but 5 years until I get (if) the pension. High interest rates and the election killed the building trade all summer, made a comeback in sept to end of nov then flatlined again after the Budget. Spent the summer and dec renovating my house. What the future brings I don't know as Labour want my savings and are killing the economy to boot. I do know something working in heating, Net zero is killing the west and the poor's chance of a better life so I'm surprised you want to achieve it. I like some of your insights but like many crusading to help the poor you don't seem to want to enable them just give them a bigger share, might be wrong but I'm seeing how big a divide there is that's for sure in means and in thinking.

[@roymillsjnr5172]

I think all you have said , is possible and more , we need to make a nation ,were others want to follow ,or build a similar system that works , the future is however fluid and changing , and politics effects us all , rich or poor .

[@craigtildesley1501]

Richard knows that there is no current need to raise taxes to spend more on improving the lives of ordinary people, because taxes are not directly related to government spending

[@cliveshorthouse4397]

I found your review direct and honest .Thankyou for that it is not usual and therefore refreshing .you might find it stimulating to read Ken Minogues book The Liberal Mind as good now as when it was written fifty years ago.Notwithstanding that Keep trucking young man Regards

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

For 2025, all I want is the planning system reform to get projects green lit. I've had it with protecting newts, we need new homes now, people first. Building homes and upgrading infrastructure are above all else the most important things for the government to focus. Second most important is efficiency in public services, we need to digitise at all levels, automate processes and embrace new technologies (we need to recapture the spirit of 'try, fail, improve' and move away from doing everything by committee). I care less about: - Small boats and legal migrants - Sharing NHS data with AI firms - Regulating AI, that genie ain't going back into the bottle. It's too late. - Big Agri taking over from 'family farmer' - we need to innovation that big agri can bring - Destroying jobs as we transition to renewables; no pain, no gain - we have to go faster

[@stevec6232]

Has Kier Starmer come for your advice yet, Richard?

[@tvfun4516]

Good luck for 2025 and the third stage of your career. It's a shame you are not a politician. You'd be one of the few I believe in like Corbyn and John McDonald. And a few other strong willed socialists sadly no longer with us.

[@staryjanek]

Uneasy, that's I felt, uneasy and worried it will get much worse next year :(

[@theeventhorizon-valebridge9512]

Thank you Richard for all you do for us. You're an inspiration and a fountain of knowledge/wisdom. It's so appreciated in this chaotic and cowardly new world in which we find ourselves! Kindest regards, Julian

[@K4rmaRules]

It was a living nightmare as a disabled person.

[@philwoodfordjjj8928]

I find what you put forward extremely interesting; in consort with Gary Stephens you actually make more sense that the majority of talking heads, commentators and academics who grace the government and the media. Unfortunately the neoliberal play book and its BS is not confined to the UK; change language and the BS is the same, which is the transfer of wealth upwards. I disagree with you regarding net Zero and electric cars, as it's not possible and a more creative response is necessary as the working class poor will be the ones that will ultimately be priced off the road, and out of the job market.

[@michaeldixon8264]

Can I ask you to look at AGI, block chain, Agents. Large Language Models versus Large Concept Models and UBI. Is Elon Musk right in that fiat money is mot necessary. What is the future narrative for UK to move forward? What will the effect of near free knowledge and near free energy have on the world. How do the young navigate this rapid near super exponential change. Is £50k plus money well spent on a Medical degree when a LCM with TTM is near free.

[@billB101]

That tweet on Chequers and Starmer, very classy Richard. FFS. Such a troll.

[@michaelhall9211]

Your videos are a great alternative to the moan, but no viable alternative brigade. I hope you find your retirement nirvana! As I have. 😊

[@shaunmiller7370]

👍

[@mattw9764]

You're wearing a Polo shirt!!!

[@martinhayes9294]

Dear. Richard Happy new year🎉😂 you have done some very good work to be proud of however the money system is so mean in its actual fundamental principle when connected to the military govermentall competitive environment with its beliefs of ideological supremacy. Please excuse this difficult sentence . The money world of cycling the printing machine for the e many trillions needed to put right the world instead of fighting a war is completely out of the understanding loop of world government because MEANNESS ls inherent to the economic monetary system There is a refusal to contemplate that the benevolent generosity of the machine can solve our problems the same as it did two hundred years ago managed by the Quaker financial community . The changing of ideological can't do may have to rely on the volunteers who need to be motivated to change the world instead of building beautiful locomotives the free ride of wind energy seems the place to start avoiding standing on too many institutions . Best wishes and happy new year Martin Sussex

[@Hickalum]

Richard …What will your grand-daughters think of you in 30 years time when they are living under a certain theocratic law … ?

[@AlbertRichardAmbriz]

I'm 51yrs old. $40,000 weekly and *I'm retired, this video have inspired me greatly in many ways that I remember my past of how I struggled with many things in life to be where I am today!!!!* ❤️

[@MelissaRose-z3v]

wow this awesome 👏 I'm 47 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??

[@MarkJames-g6q]

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[@Sonia-m3t]

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[@Donellephilbrick]

After I raised up to 325k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states 🇺🇸🇺🇸 also paid for my son's surgery (Oscar). Glory to God.shalom.

[@user-gf5qm9no8q]

watched your interview on talk TV, your are correct in your claims, but are you in the business of effecting change or "just being right"?. i doubt any talk tv viewer unaware of the economic truth came away from that with their mind changed, despite you being on the money. i thought it was a really daft approach.

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

2024 was pretty good overall. We got rid of the hard right Conservatives. And we moved Labour back to centrism. We have a ruthless PM helming a cabinet with people with actual experience of the world, and passion to fix things. Taxes were raised, rightly so. We got a chancellor who will force departments to make efficiencies. And we have a review of planning and infrastructure at last. UK equities stagnated, but North American equities performed very well. So overall, yeah pretty good year.

[@MyKharli]

Depressing witnessing the continuing worsening of wildlife and tree deaths and no change at all in farming practices whatever greenwash reporting says .

[@franzsteinbauer231]

Woke idiocy ended in 2024

[@thpark8189]

The first half was optimistic, the second half was a living nightmare. What changed?

[@user-nx6ji9tk8i]

Thanks to Thomas for unstinting work.

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

Your attack on Starmer (on Twitter) while he's mourning his brothers death is despicable. Do better, Richard.

[@billB101]

Absolutely, showed his true colours there for sure.

[@Ace-n9n]

What did he say?

[@billB101]

@@Ace-n9n trolled him about being at Chequers. Well below the belt.

[@baronvonchickenpants6564]

Don't give a toss

[@YaoAnne-j7g]

I am at the beginning of my "investment journey", planning to put 385K into dividend stocks so that I will be making up to 30% annually in dividend returns. any good recommendation on great performing stocks or Crypto will be appreciated

[@JoseLopez-lf9rw]

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[@BensonTati]

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[@JoseLopez-lf9rw]

I don't really blame people who panic. Lack of information can be a big hurdle. I've been making more than $200k passively by just investing through an advisor, and I don't have to do much work. Inflation or no inflation, my finances remain secure. So I really don't blame people who panic.

[@BensonTati]

Without a doubt! Ruth Ann Tsakonas is a trader who goes above and beyond. she has an exceptional skill for analysing market movements and spotting profitable opportunities. Her strategies are meticulously crafted on thorough research and years of practical experience.

[@YaoAnne-j7g]

how would you recommend i enter the crypto market? I am also looking at studying some traders and copying their strategy rather than investing myself and losing money emotionally. What's your take on this approach? and How can i reach her, if you don't mind me asking?

[@harrisonbergeron9746]

it was shite pal but then i'm poor, not a petty bourgeois flunky

[@jonnoMoto]

what characteristics of him do you consider bougie?

[@harrisonbergeron9746]

@@jonnoMoto lol good one

[@jonnoMoto]

​@@harrisonbergeron9746sorry? good what?

[@jonnoMoto]

​@@harrisonbergeron9746sorry. good what?

[@jonnoMoto]

​@@harrisonbergeron9746good what? I'm genuinely interested because i no longer know what people think that word means anymore. i can think of other negative characteristics of him, but him as part of the bourgeois isn't one of them.

[@ΛλρληΛαρλωμ]

2025 is gonna be worse

[@erongi233]

At 81 I look around and have never seen anything like Trump or for that matter Starmer . Whatever you may think of Trump he is a remarkable man for 78. He takes on everyone and wins.Outlasting almost everyone with panache.The most radical and controversial maybe still to come .Starmer is nothing like this . He always looks as though he is anxious about something. He looks and sounds clerical.

[@lonevoice]

Seems as though you admire Trump. He is dangerous as are very many leaders in the world today. In my view, national leadership by any individual doesn't work. Far too often we see leaders mislead once in power, push the boundaries and the public never really know what they are getting. In the modern era this unpredictability creates risk and is dangerous. Any semblance of stability in the world today is precarious and at some point our luck will run out. The only solution that I can see is for leadership to be in the hands of a small cross party group of MPs (in the case of the UK). They may appoint a chairman and spokesperson to represent the leadership group but the group would have control. They would be appointed by means of some form of PR election, preferably annually and largely electronically (much like the submission of Tax Returns). Having it annually would reduce short terms and enable better long term planning. The above is just a broad outline but in reality is unlikely to ever be implemented. There is no discussion of anything along these lines. The powerful and wealthy influencers wouldn't like it and would interfere. Even if something like this was established in one country it is unlikely to be replicated elsewhere. As you can probably gather, I am not optimistic about the ability of our species to survive. At some point I think that our luck will run out but no-one seems to be concerned so perhaps I shouldn't either in our insane world.

[@DukagjinAjazi]

Trump is a thug. He is musolinist. A fashist.

[@JaneJenkins-q2y]

Please don't fall for the scams in the KZbin comments about investing. KZbinr Atomicshrimp explains it best.

[@JaneJenkins-q2y]

AlbertRichardAmbriz is a fake account.