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   Number 1: Netanyahu & 10/7; Houtis; Trade War; AI; Parenthood; PISA; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show

   Live Sep 8, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 150)Netanyahu & 10/7; Houtis; Trade War; AI; Parenthood; PISA; Achievements | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/9JTdXX9LAyoDid Benjamin Netanyahu get an 11-day warning about October 7th — and sit on it?In this episode, Yaron Brook lays out the two new reports rocking Israel a month before its election, and argues the case for a reckoning goes well beyond one man's political survival.A month before Israel's election, two bombshell reports allege Prime Minister Netanyahu received direct warnings before October 7th — one from the President of the UAE himself — and failed to act. Yaron Brook breaks down what's credible, what's spin, and why he thinks Netanyahu has to go regardless of how this specific allegation shakes out.Then: Houthi missiles just hit Saudi Arabia in one of the largest attacks in years — is the Middle East sliding into a wider war? The US and Canada are taxing their own citizens in a trade fight neither side can win. OpenAI's own chief scientist is calling for the industry to slow itself down. And a Virginia mother just got a criminal conviction — and a spot on the state's abuse registry — for letting her five-year-old walk half a mile to a pond.Yaron Brook brings his signature no-BS, reason-first take on the week's biggest stories — plus live audience questions on Rick and Morty, Ayn Rand's cultural legacy, Mike Mentzer, Milei-style populism, and more.🔴 Watch live every weekday: subscribe and turn on notifications. Main Topics:00:20 – Netanyahu allegedly warned before October 7 — and did nothing? 00:51 – The two competing reports and why timing (one month before elections) matters 1:24 – Houthi missiles hit Saudi Arabia — is the Red Sea the next war front? 2:04 – OpenAI's own chief scientist says: slow AI down 2:38 – Good news first: driverless cars hit London, ASML bets big on the Netherlands 3:16 – Netanyahu's response to the UAE's warning, unpacked 10:05 – Has Netanyahu always misjudged Hamas? 19:41 – Why Israel needs an independent commission — now 22:12 – Inside the Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia 30:07 – The US-Canada trade war: who's really paying the tax? 41:17 – Should AI regulate itself into paralysis? 54:34 – A mom convicted for letting her 5-year-old walk to a pond 59:13 – America's PISA scores are collapsing — here's what that really means 1:06:08 – Driverless taxis go live in London 1:09:42 – ASML's new mega-campus in the Netherlands 1:12:09 – A nuclear plant comes back from the dead — thanks to a DOE loan 1:14:12 – Why long-term power contracts matter more than subsidiesLive Audience Questions1:18:22 – Should Yaron review Rick and Morty's most philosophical episode? 1:20:35 – Are Netanyahu and Trump the same kind of transactional operator? 1:23:51 – What made the Mike Mentzer story so moving? 1:24:56 – Did Ayn Rand personally save the West from another dark age? 1:26:53 – Is historian Frank Dikötter's take on China as sharp as Yaron's? 1:27:26 – Is Milei's brand of populism sustainable — or a warning sign? 1:29:24 – What does Yaron make of the Lindsay Clancy case? 1:30:29 – Does holding onto anger betray justice — or just waste energy? 1:32:35 – Can an AI actually simulate a brain? 1:33:13 – The "Mississippi Miracle": how one state fixed its schools fast 1:33:54 – Devil's advocate: is Netanyahu as culpable as Lindsay Clancy? 1:35:09 – Is Trump's deregulation push secretly Rand-influenced? 1:35:37 – Is the whole West finally moving toward deregulation? 1:36:46 – Can egoism quietly win even in an altruist culture?#Netanyahu #October7 #Israel #Houthis #AIRegulation #TradeWar #saudiarabia #canada #reading #FreeMarkets #GeopoliticsToday #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? 🎓 Learn more about [Ayn Rand University](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

   September 08, 2026·1h 40min
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   Number 2: Answering Capitalism’s Critics #3: Hasan Piker — “Technofeudalism” | Yaron Brook Show

   Live Sep 5, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 148)Answering Capitalism’s Critics #3: Hasan Piker — “Technofeudalism” | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/HgG_a5U8EfkIf Big Tech is "feudal lords" and workers are "serfs," why can you delete your Facebook account, but a medieval peasant couldn't walk off his lord's land?A famous socialist streamer just told 2 million people that Jeff Bezos "won the lottery" and that Big Tech runs a new "feudalism." He's wrong on both counts — and Yaron will prove it with a 1979 Chinese village, a bag of rice, and one simple question: who actually builds the things you use every day?In episode 3 of "Answering Capitalism's Critics," Yaron breaks down Hasan Piker's viral Breakfast Club interview line by line — his embrace of Yanis Varoufakis's "technofeudalism" thesis, his claim that profit is theft, and his insistence that success is a random lottery ticket. Yaron shows why the profit motive — not government redistribution — is the actual mechanism that turned starving Chinese villages into a country that feeds 1.4 billion people, why homelessness isn't a capitalism problem, and why Europe, for all its wealth, has never produced a YouTube, a PayPal, or a Google. If you've ever heard someone call Elon Musk a "feudal lord," this is the episode that ends that argument for good.🕐 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – Why Hasan Piker deserves a full takedown (he's the far left's best-dressed spokesman)4:59 – Playing Hasan Piker's viral Breakfast Club clip on "techno-feudalism"28:54 – "Capitalism is all about profit" — and why that's exactly the point42:53 – The 1979 Chinese village that tripled its harvest overnight (and what it proves) 1:07:14 – Debunking Varoufakis's "technofeudalism" thesis word by word 1:09:45 – "It's not their skill" — why the lottery myth is an insult to human beings 1:12:15 – You have a voluntary relationship with a company. A serf never did with his lord. 1:18:43 – Live chat weighs in: is homelessness really capitalism's fault? 1:21:13 – Somebody has to produce it — and profit is what motivates them to 1:25:03 – Tech platforms don't impose rules on you. Your own government does. 1:27:26 – Why does America build everything? (Hint: it's not an accident) 1:30:03 – Live audience Q&A: the internet reacts in real time❓LIVE AUDIENCE QUESTIONS COVERED — "If workers are exploited, why do startup founders go broke paying salaries for years before they make a dime?" — "If success is really a lottery, why won't Hasan Piker give his money away?" — "If Big Tech is 'feudal,' why can I just… quit Facebook?" — "Why doesn't Europe have its own Google?" — "Is PayPal blocking Cuba transactions a corporate abuse — or a government one?"Subscribe for the full "Answering Capitalism's Critics" series — new takedown every week.#TechnoFeudalism #HasanPiker #Socialism #Marxism #Entrepreneurship #IndividualRights #Economics #socialism #feudalism #technology #WealthInequality #MixedEconomy #AynRand #IndividualRights #Objectivism #Capitalism #FreeMarkets Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

   September 05, 2026·2h 8min
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   Number 3: Hegseth; Iran; Russia; JDVance; Debt; Oil; Golden Shares; Founders; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

   Live Sep 3, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 146)Hegseth; Iran; Russia; JDVance; Debt; Oil; Golden Shares; Founders; Achievement | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/e3TlpsJo4K4If the Secretary of Defense can fire 26 generals in 14 months without a single misconduct charge, does America still have a military — or does it have a loyalty test with tanks?Pete Hegseth just purged another wave of senior officers — and Yaron Brook says this isn't discipline, it's the politicization of the most powerful military on earth. In this episode, Yaron rips into the Pentagon's chain-of-command chaos, explains why Iran's regime is still standing despite two "wars" and a "ceasefire," and breaks down why Putin — hiding in a bunker, terrified of his own generals — is losing a war he started. Then it's JD Vance's play for 2028, a $40 trillion debt bomb nobody in Washington wants to talk about, oil markets bracing for the next shock, and Trump's "golden share" grab into private companies — a policy Bernie Sanders would love. Yaron closes where he always does: on the founders, builders, and achievers who actually move history forward, while politicians just move the furniture.If you think foreign policy, debt, and government ownership of business are separate stories — you're missing the pattern. Watch to see it.🔴 Subscribe and hit the bell — new episodes of the Yaron Brook Show drop live, unfiltered, and uncut.Timestamps00:00 — Cold open: what a Secretary of Defense is actually for 03:40 — Hegseth's purge: 26 generals fired, zero for misconduct — is this discipline or loyalty policing? 17:15 — Iran: is "regime change" real, or just a talking point Washington abandoned? 34:50 — Russia: why is Putin hiding in a bunker while claiming victory? 48:20 — JD Vance: fraud czar, peace envoy, or the man positioning to run in 2028? 1:02:10 — The debt: what happens when interest payments eat the federal budget alive? 1:14:35 — Oil: who actually controls the price at the pump right now? 1:26:00 — Golden shares: is Trump's government stake in private firms more socialist than Bernie's plan? 1:39:45 — Founders and achievement: who actually builds the things that make your life better?Live Q&A1:05:30 — "Should Hegseth resign, or is Trump the real problem?" 1:19:00 — "Is Iran's regime one uprising away from collapse — or permanent?" 1:31:15 — "If the government owns 10% of a company, who really runs it?" 1:47:00 — "Is JD Vance more dangerous than Trump long-term?"#Iran #Hegseth #Pentagon #NationalDebt #FreeMarkets #GeopoliticsToday #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

   September 03, 2026·2h 21min
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   Number 4: Answering Capitalism’s Critics #1: Benn Jordan’s “Leveragism” | Yaron Brook Show

   Live August 14, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 136)Answering Capitalism’s Critics #1: Benn Jordan’s “Leveragism” | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/oj4Aj7jEJJABenn Jordan says capitalism is dead — that trillion-dollar companies are turning you into a "digital sharecropper" who'll own nothing while they own everything. I say he's dressed up Karl Marx's 175-year-old exploitation myth in crypto-era buzzwords and a slicker font. Who's right?Benn Jordan's viral video "The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now" has millions of views and a term he invented to describe it: Leveragism — the idea that capitalism has quietly mutated into a rent-extraction machine where the rich don't need to grow the pie anymore, they just need to squeeze you harder. Gold traps. Bond traps. 401(k) siphoning. "Shadow work." Digital feudalism.It's a compelling story. It's also wrong — and dangerously wrong, because it takes every real symptom of the mixed economy (a Federal Reserve that inflates the currency, a government that bails out the reckless, a tax code riddled with cronyism) and blames it on the one thing that's actually been fighting those symptoms for 300 years: free trade between consenting adults.In this episode I go point by point through Jordan's argument — inflation as theft, the "rug pull" economy, Spotify and AI as new-age plantation owners, the claim that capitalism requires exploitation to survive — and show where the mechanism actually breaks down. Then I take your questions live.If you've ever watched a "capitalism is collapsing" video and felt the pull of it, even for a second, this episode is for you.⏱️ MAIN TOPICS 0:00 – What is "Leveragism" and why 20 million people are nodding along 6:40 – Marx's exploitation myth, rebranded: is the employment contract really a trap?14:15 – Inflation isn't capitalism stealing your wages — here's who's actually printing the money 23:50 – The "rent economy" claim: are we really reverting to feudalism? 34:20 – AI, Spotify, and the "digital sharecropper" — where the critique has a real point, and where it collapses 46:05 – Gold, bonds, and the "rug pull": untangling government policy from market behavior 58:30 – Shadow work and stolen time: is IKEA exploiting you, or did you just make a trade? 1:10:15 – The mixed economy vs. capitalism — why critics never separate the two 1:22:40 – What real capitalism would actually look like, and why it fixes every complaint in this video💬 LIVE AUDIENCE QUESTIONS 1:34:05 – If billionaires get richer during a crash, doesn't that prove the system is rigged? 1:41:20 – Isn't "voluntary" meaningless when you need a job to survive? 1:48:50 – Can capitalism survive the AI wealth concentration everyone's terrified of? 1:56:10 – If markets are so rational, why do bubbles and crashes keep happening? 2:02:30 – Is Benn Jordan a socialist, or just an accidental one?#Capitalism #Leveragism #ObjectivismExplained #AynRand #FreeMarkets #Economics2026 #WealthInequality #MixedEconomy #BennJordan #IndividualRights #objectivism #FreeMarkets Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

   August 14, 2026·2h 4min
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   Number 5: Primaries; Mail votes; Immigration; Iran; China; Jones Act; Inflation; MAGA Media | Yaron Brook Show

   Live August 12, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 134)Primaries; Mail votes; Immigration; Iran; China; Jones Act; Inflation; MAGA Media | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/fVGsHVEbtSM"If MAGA was never about stopping illegal immigration — if it was about stopping all immigration, even the PhD who wants to build the next Silicon Valley company — what does that tell you about who's actually driving this presidency?"On this episode Yaron breaks down district by district on why Democrats are going to win the midterms — and why it has nothing to do with anyone actually liking them. Then he breaks down why Mike Lindell lost his primary with Trump's endorsement, why the DSA is becoming to Trump what MAGA was to Obama, and why the administration's new mail-ballot power grab is headed for a wall named "the Constitution."Yaron goes to war on the Jones Act — a 1920s law so absurd that Trump's own "fix" now requires a bureaucrat's sign-off for every single ship voyage — and explains why Iran is betting it can outlast us, because dictatorships are built to make their own people suffer. Plus: China's tariff failure is turning into full industrial central planning, July's inflation numbers, and a live audience Q&A covering Fort Knox's gold, social media liability lawsuits, and Gaza casualty numbers.If you think both parties are lying to you about immigration, inflation, and Iran — you're right. Let's get into why.🔴 Watch live every weekday: subscribe and hit the bell.👉 Full show notes and sponsor links in the pinned comment.TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Cold open: Mike Lindell loses his Trump-endorsed primary 07:09 – Q: "Shouldn't Objectivists support Mike Lindell?" 09:18 – Why Democrats win the midterms without anyone actually liking them 11:58 – How Trump created the DSA the way Obama created MAGA 15:14 – Trump's mail-ballot executive order: an unconstitutional power grab 18:45 – Will your mail ballot even count this fall? 21:30 – The $100K fee that outs MAGA as anti-immigration, period 28:05 – Why sanctions alone will never break the Iranian regime 36:47 – The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at a 40-year low 39:58 – China: how tariffs failed and morphed into subsidies and equity stakes 43:18 – Xi's leverage and why Beijing isn't blinking 46:47 – The Jones Act "waiver" that needs a bureaucrat's permission per voyage50:18 – July inflation: relative prices or the real thing? 1:08:26 – Fort Knox: is the gold actually there? 1:11:15 – What America should do with $644 billion in government goldLIVE AUDIENCE Q&A 1:22:09 – Kicking off viewer questions 1:26:23 – Q: Are social media companies liable for addicting your kids? 1:38:16 – Q: Did "woke" already peak? 1:41:07 – Q: How many real civilians actually died in Gaza?#Immigration #Iran #ChinaTariffs #MAGA #Midterms2026 #Capitalism #Inflation #AynRand #democrats #dsa #ObjectivismToday #ForeignPolicy #FreeMarkets #AynRandLike this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

   August 12, 2026·1h 53min
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