Hi everyone and welcome to this special episode of a world to win. This week we are very

excitingly launching our new format where we're going to have shorter shows that are

focused more on current events that are more discursive. You will hear a bit more

of me whether or not that is a good thing or a bad thing I will let you decide. And yeah,

we're going to be discussing, you know, stuff that's going on in the news. So this week

I have the brilliant Gary Stevenson, who is a former trader and an equality economist

and who has a brilliant YouTube channel called Gary's Economics that I would recommend

you all sign up to. There is a link in the description to the episode. And we are talking

about the cost of living crisis. So we're talking about, you know, inflation where

it's coming from who's being most harmed by inflation and also who is benefiting from rising

prices and what kinds of rising prices and how we can tackle this rather than just simply

saying let's raise interest rates and make the poor pay more for their debt servicing. What else

can we do? Gary has some fascinating insights and very passionate opinions on this. So I'm really

pleased to have him on as our first guest in this new format and do let us know what you think.

And if you have any comments or questions. Now the way that we are pushing through and like

changing up the format and hopefully at some point delivering you some new content, some video

content as well is we're using what we get from the Patreon to try and build and grow this.

So please do sign up to become a patron. And if you do sign up to become a patron,

you can get the chance to feed into this process much more of us kind of switching up the way

that we do the podcast. So yeah, make sure you sign up. It's patreon.com slash a world to win pod.

We are still going to be doing the classic a world to win long form interviews, the hour long shows

where we interview academics, politicians and just have a much broader discussion. But we are

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