Nick Costaras

@MartinSLewis Everything is common between us. We also do finance meetings for our common goals in life. I believe in many cases money gets in the way of love and can ruin relationships..

TELL US: Couples, how do you manage money between you? Do you have kitchen table finance meetings – how often? Do you have joint or separate accounts and why? Please reply here, like your faves, and pod producer Simon will collate some to read out.

@robprogressive I’m all for resisting a cashless society as well, but someone needs to tell that taxi driver that there are many card companies that charge under 1%…

I took a taxi in London recently. I handed the driver cash, because I resist a cashless society. She looked relieved & said, “Thank you. Card fees cost me 5%.” She pointed to a sign: “We prefer cash.” Then she told me that the London regulators keep forcing her to take the sign down. They’ve even threatened to revoke her license. But she keeps putting it back up. The real truth is these extortionate fees are the real reason banks want a cashless society. And once there’s no cash what’s stopping them from raising fees to 10%... or more? Cash = freedom. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. So Resist. Pay in cash. Support small businesses. Before it’s too late

Stablecoin rules in the UK are being finalized, and are at risk of preventing the UK from being globally competitive in the digital economy. For example, the Bank of England is proposing a cap on stablecoin holdings for individuals and businesses. The UK has a long history of being a financial hub. Embracing and encouraging innovation, especially when other countries are moving fast here, is important for maintaining that. The current direction of the rules does the opposite, and will act as an innovation blocker. If you're from the UK you can sign the petition by @StandWCrypto_UK to set out a pro-innovation strategy for blockchain and stablecoins. Link below.

@garyvee I needed this Gary! Thanks mate!

Clearly I got triggered by a comment on my tea with garyvee Show lol .. listen when you watch this please understand the truth here, we need to address our relationship with ourselves .. we need more self love, we need more accountability .. we need to start focusing on what we control! We are so capable yet we have given up our will to outside energies and before I get comments that meditation and ice baths are indeed good, OF COURSE they are but the point I’m making here is we need deep internal perspective work, those things are incredible but they are pieces of the puzzles and the biggest piece is your perspective on the world and your relationship with your inner self and holding YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE 1st! Xoxoxo I love yall, I hope this helps someone today! PS: Go to my profile, click “Following” and then “Add to Favorites” to stay up to date on all my posts ❤️ #discipline #accountability #mindset #garyvee

@SiamKidd @DanielPriestley @StevenBartlett Completely agree with you! I’m actually surprised to see how many people commented on the youtube video in favor of what Gary was saying… I think this is a good indication of society atm!

Sooooo I watched this last night as my mate @DanielPriestley was having a debate with a guy who (in my opinion) has no frickin clue on reality or socioeconomics (despite being a very good trader). youtu.be/4yohVh4qcas?si… @StevenBartlett It was the most PAINFUL interview I've ever watched with endless emotional virtue signalling/crying by Gary and him just bombarding Dan with pointless questions. Poor Dan didn't have more than 5 seconds airtime to answer something before another emotional burp was thrown at him. Dan and I think pretty much identically when it comes to this stuff and I think he massively toned down his thoughts to be more 'PC' and try and find common ground here. Someone on X asked what my solutions would be...here's a quick list: 1.) The system is broken. Autocracies are historically proven to be the best system IF you are fortunate enough to have a good leader. Capitalism works, but NOT crony-Capitalism. We have the latter at the moment due to Keynesian Economics that is brainwashed into every econ student. 2.) You need VERY small Government to do the SINGLE thing that governments were originally mandated to do. Which is to govern. NOT control every damn thing it can. Good examples of this is what Milei is doing in Argentina and Bukele in El Salvador. 3.) The Government needs to balance the budget! Very simple. This video here is something I made in 2020 of how you turn a country around. Milei/Bukele/Trump are literally copying these actions (youtu.be/7iIcchZC7nQ?si…)… 4.) As part of that you need to dramatically spur growth. You can never do that by hating and taxing the rich. You do this by making the UK the best damn tax and biz place to be. You will then see a flood of million/billionaires which will all come and produce jobs and econ activity. Look at what Trump is doing at the moment. 1 month in, he's had countless bizzes pledge hundreds of Billions in investment and moving factories to the US. Look at Monaco, they have no taxes per se, but they have other ways to fill their coffers, like charging $70k PER DAY to dock your boat there! 5.) If you do 3 and 4 correctly, you can then (in parallel) create a Sovereign Wealth Fund. Again, look at that video link, Trump is literally copying my playbook here. 6.) The Gov needs to become obsessed with DOMINATING and being the one and only harbour for bizzes and entrepreneurs that are ploughing forward with exponential techs. Addictive manufacturing, Crypto, AI, robotics, CRISPR etc etc. You can't do this if you're the most egregious regulated place on the planet. 7.) As Autonomous AI Agents and robots displace humans in the workplace, and non-human GDP starts to overshoot human GDP, this is hyper deflationary as the price of ALL goods and services spirals down to gross marginal costs and so everything becomes 5-10x cheaper for the average Joe. Eventually you can have a Universal HIGH Income for all adult citizens. 8.) Citizens being the key word here. There is a massive immigration issue where you have violent non economically productive people flooding in. That needs fixing. Once crime rates drop (which can only be done with extreme measures like in El Salvador) then people will return to the UK. 9.) The property issue is a thing I can talk about for weeks as the average Joe has been CONNED from an early age to think that the best and most prudent thing one can do is to buy a house early in life when you can't actually afford one! This whole topic becomes a moot point once UHI comes in. Then over the next decade or two, population will start to thin out due to the crashing procreation and fertility rates, autonomous ride hailing miles will dwarf human driven miles and so huge chunks of real estate like car parks will be repurposed and 3d printed homes will be put up 10x faster and for a 5x price reduction. Seriously, there is no long term ROI with property. 10.) Regarding Gary constantly crying out about how his sister can't afford rent or his friends struggling to pay bills etc, at no point in the interview was the topic raised about how frickin LAZY most of the general public is. Ultimately the schooling system has screwed over everyone here because a JOB is the worst wealth generating tool out there. But the energy/resource allocation and prioritisation skills of the 'struggling class' is woefully lacking. I know this from first hand experience as I've done a lot of charity work and community outreach stuff and my wife used to be part of the ITV Fixers project. All these council estates/people that Gary was crying for, they all have MASSIVE widescreen TVs, Xboxs, they smoke/vape and drink to excess, they gamble/do drugs and they are lazy in a work ethic perspective. Pareto principle in full action here of course and I'm getting the big black tar brush out here. People spend more hours watching TV or the football or planning their next car or holiday purchase than putting in the hours to GENERATE WEALTH! Mother Market is a brutal real time reflection of value. If YOU are valuable and have valuable skills, knowledge or know how, then you will be adequately rewarded. If you have NO useful skills etc, then you will not be rewarded. So I'm pretty sure Gary's sister or friends are inept from a skills perspective. And they are most likely not putting in the hours on YouTube or AIs to LEARN and build new knowledge and skills.

@yanisvaroufakis I agree that projects like $LIBRA, TRUMP, and MELANIA coins are empty schemes. But comparing them to Bitcoin is like comparing apples to pears. Unlike these, Bitcoin is decentralized, has no controlling entity, and operates on sound monetary principles

On Friday 14th, Argentina's President Milei tweeted about the $LIBRA coin, encouraging his followers to buy it on the grounds that it would “help fund small businesses and start-ups”. As if that weren’t enough, he shared a link for people to buy it online. Naturally, within a few hours, $LIBRA’s price shot up. Many more people, trying to escape the poverty that Millei’s policies have subjected them to, rushed in to buy. Alas, soon after the price of $LIBRA crashed and they lost their money. This is a standard tactic by crypto scammers. It is known as a ‘rug pull’: draw in naïve buyers only to stop trading and run with their money. But when the President of the country does it, it is more than a scam, a scandal. It is a crime. More broadly, this incident confirms how dangerous the illusion of apolitical, non-state, money is. Money can never be anything other than state based. That we need to democratise our public money is, of course, crucial. But any attempt to privatise money, however well-meaning its adherent might be, is bound to end in tears and to empower an oligarchic circle. End of story.

@SiamKidd Thanks for getting back to me Siam! I see where you’re coming from, yes I would assume the final result could be accomplished in a much more financially efficient way… Take care, all the best!

Hi Nick! Amazing! Thank you for taking the time in reading/listening to it. Appreciated. So from my personal perspective, any large scale infra project lead/instigated by the government is RIDDLED with bloat, inefficiencies and back handers! As such, projects like this are ALWAYS over budget, over time and sometimes never completed...just look at California HSR. Hell, HS2 is a joke too. It's only half the original planned route. And look at it from a £ per mile of track. Extortionate. It'll be easier and cheaper to just scrap it all and get Elon to build a loop...much faster too.

Hi @SiamKidd I just finished your latest book which I enjoyed and found interesting! Quick genuine question. You mentioned that that HS2 is not a good idea, could you perhaps elaborate to why you believe this? I’m genuinely curious.. Many thanks!

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@rustyrockets Sure, i think he’s back next Wednesday…

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@kris @iluvpcs My Dec31 Bitcoin Price: 107222

A lot of DMs asking me for another game after @iluvpcs win.. Ok guys, let’s do it! 😁 Guess Bitcoin price as at 31 Dec 2024, 23:59:59 UTC. I will give the person with the closest guess 1 BTC. The rules are simple: 1. Like, follow me and RT. 2. Comment: My Dec31 Bitcoin Price

@kris 100k incoming

When Bitcoin hits $100,000 I will give 1 BTC to one person who follows me. The rules are simple: - like this tweet, follow me and RT - comment “100k incoming” Let’s go! $BTC #bitcoin

My Controversial Question to @Lagarde

@Fidias0 Hard to have a concrete view on this, but I think I agree with @Fidias0 . Should funding and weapons stop, then this would hopefully push diplomacy higher up the agenda. We can’t go back in time but we can save future lives by stopping the war.

My Decision Regarding The Ukraine War

U.S POLITICS SUMMED UP...

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