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Financiers Acquitted; Iran; Peace Nobel; Skilled Immigration; SpaceX; Cancer | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 163)
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"Why did 18 of 19 financiers just get their convictions thrown out — eleven years after prison took their lives?"

A banker gets 14 years — the sentence we reserve for second-degree murder — for nudging a number by a hundredth of a percent. Eleven years later, the courts admit there was never a crime. On this episode, Yaron Brook tears into the acquittal of the LIBOR traders and argues Wall Street has been the West's designated scapegoat since the 2008 crash — while the central banks that actually rigged the system walk free.

From there Yaron goes to war: a three-day Pentagon strike plan on Iran is sitting on Trump's desk and nobody will sign it, Navi Pillay just won a Nobel Peace Prize that makes Obama's look earned, and JD Vance just suspended Microsoft and seven other companies from the green card system — proof the "we're only against illegal immigration" line was always a lie. Plus: SpaceX's $8 billion spectrum play that could gut AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile overnight, and a genuinely stunning number on cancer survival that nobody's talking about.

If you think finance is evil, immigration is the enemy, or "peace" prizes mean anything anymore — this episode will wreck your priors.

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Main Topics:
0:00 — Intro
1:00 — LIBOR traders acquitted: how finance became the West's designated villain
25:06 — The real crime: a trader moves a number by 0.01%, gets prison
35:52 — Self-interest is the engine of every honest trade in history
41:35 — Iran: six war plans drafted, none signed — strategic paralysis exposed
44:36 — Pentagon drafts credibility, Trump declines to sign it
47:14 — The Nobel Peace Prize, from Obama and Arafat to today's farce
56:49 — JD Vance suspends Microsoft and 7 others from the green card system
1:02:27 — The $70K and $103K fees quietly strangling legal immigration
1:05:31 — Harvard admissions data exposes the "Asian grind culture" racists
1:12:25 — 5 of 6 science & tech medals this year went to immigrants
1:15:48 — SpaceX's $8B spectrum deal that could crater AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile
1:17:00 — Should universities admit only the highest-potential minds?
1:19:01 — Cancer survival jumped from 49% to 71% in one generation — here's why
1:22:01 — Wrap-up / show support

Audience Q&A 
1:24:06 — Did Gaza's population actually rise during the war — or is that claim false?
1:25:20 — Did Israel's bot and TikTok PR campaigns backfire into more conspiracy theories?
1:26:42 — Why has the "official" history of who the good guys were started to crumble?
1:34:25 — Did Obama's Peace Prize kill the Nobel's credibility for good?
1:37:29 — Is Trump right that "no borders, no country"?
1:40:49 — Why does the world feel materially richer but spiritually poorer every year?
1:41:57 — Does trade require believing you're more logically productive than your partner — and does that expose AI's limits?
1:45:46 — Did Rubio mix up the Athenians with the Spartans in his Athens speech?
1:48:23 — Do statists tinker with the system because they know it's resilient enough to survive them?
1:48:56 — Would you risk civil disobedience if free speech got abolished — even without the numbers to win?
1:52:39 — Why are JD Vance and Bernie Sanders both racing to disown open borders?

#Immigration #H1B #SpaceX #NobelPeacePrize #WallStreet #finance #libor  #IranWar #justice #FreeMarkets #capitalismvssocialism #Individualism #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy 

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Rubio in Athens; Iran War?; Bond Vigilantes; Ukraine; Vance; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 162)
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"Marco Rubio stood on the hill where democracy was born and praised Western civilization — so why did he credit the religion that shut down the Academy and buried it for a thousand years?"

Marco Rubio gave a speech on the Pnyx, with the Acropolis behind him, defending Western civilization — on October 7th, without once mentioning October 7th. Yaron Brook breaks down why half of Rubio's speech is brilliant (individualism, reason, the pursuit of excellence) and the other half is a dishonest sleight of hand that credits Christianity for burying the very Greek ideas it's praising.

Then: Trump orders the Pentagon to prep Iran strikes to lower gas prices — then cancels them until after the midterms, handing Tehran a free month. Bond vigilantes are now pricing French and British government debt as riskier than their own corporations' bonds — Yaron explains why that's a good thing. Russia is leveling Ukrainian apartment buildings and nobody's chanting "genocide." And JD Vance, when asked to define socialism, says he "doesn't really know what the term means anymore" — conveniently, since the Trump administration now owns equity in 30+ US companies.

Yaron Brook — chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute — gives you the news the way almost nobody else will: judged against reason, individual rights, and whether politicians are telling you the truth.

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Topics covered: Rubio's Athens speech and the fight over who really owns Western civilization, the farce of Trump's Iran war threats timed to the midterms, why bond vigilantes are heroes not villains, Russia's civilian massacres in Ukraine getting a pass, JD Vance redefining socialism to dodge his own administration, and a Q&A on October 7th, Israeli politics, and more.

Main Topics
0:00 — Cold open: Rubio's Athens speech, staged on October 7th, never mentions October 7th
~6:00 — What Rubio gets right: individualism, reason, "the unknown can be known"
~18:00 — How the speech smuggles in Christianity as the "cause" of the West
~30:00 — Nationalism, torn-down monuments, and the Achilles misquote
43:03 — "The ancient Greeks were not naive" — Sparta vs. Athens, and why the 300 is the wrong example
~55:00 — Iran: Pentagon told to prep strikes, then Trump cancels until after the midterms
1:02:42 — "It's all about the election" — gas prices and the Hormuz farce
1:05:59 — Bond vigilantes: why the market pricing France and the UK as default risks is a good sign
1:09:13 — French corporate bonds now safer than French government bonds
1:12:07 — Ukraine: Russia's glide bombs on commuter buses, 33 dead, nobody says "genocide"
1:15:28 — JD Vance can't define socialism (because Trump's government owns equity in 30+ companies)

Live Audience Q&A
1:44:54 — "Was October 7th a pogrom or an invasion?" — why neither label quite fits
1:47:09 — "Is Rubio secretly moderating Trump, or is he just Trump's legitimizer?"
~1:50:00 — Should states have one official language?
~1:55:00 — Should Europe send its navies to open the Strait of Hormuz?
~2:00:00 — Achievements of the week — and a detour into raw shrimp

#MarcoRubio #WesternCivilization #IranWar #BondVigilantes #UkraineWar #JDVance #Greece #france #FreeMarkets #capitalismvssocialism #Individualism #Objectivism #AynRand #ForeignPolicy 


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Oct 7 -- Lessons Learnt?; Mamdani; Bond Vigilantes; Half Fought War; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 161)
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"What if October 7th wasn't a failure of intelligence — but a failure of nerve? Three years later, Yaron Brook names the lesson Israel and the West still refuse to learn."

On the third anniversary of October 7th, Yaron Brook delivers his most unflinching verdict yet: the massacre wasn't an intelligence failure — it was a failure of philosophy. Israel had the warnings. It had drone footage of Hamas rehearsing the attack on model kibbutzim. It had a direct call from the UAE. It ignored all of it because "the Concept" — the comforting lie that Hamas could be bought off — was easier to believe than the truth staring everyone in the face.

Three years later, Brook argues, nothing essential has changed. Netanyahu still hasn't called a commission of inquiry. JD Vance just softened "stop enrichment" into a meaningless "cut" in Iran's nuclear program. Zohran Mamdani is spreading blood libel in New York. And the bond market is quietly preparing to punish a government that still refuses to say the word "austerity."

Brook also honors the real heroes of that day — the untold story of Lt. Col. Or Ben-Yehuda, who held the line at Tsufa when the state failed to — and closes with a reminder that even in a week this dark, science keeps delivering: GLP-1 drugs may be slowing human aging itself.

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Main Topics
0:00 — Remembering October 7th, three years later
3:52 — The untold heroism of Lt. Col. Or Ben-Yehuda at Tsufa
10:00 — Was October 7th really an "intelligence failure" — or something worse?
24:06 — Why is Trump's Iran "peace board" letting the enemy write its own surrender terms?
27:40 — How did Just War Theory get Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire?
34:58 — Why did the institutions meant to inform us lie instead?
38:42 — Should Netanyahu's 15 years in power disqualify him from leading Israel forward?
49:22 — Is Mamdani's rhetoric just politics — or outright blood libel?
56:46 — Why is JD Vance quietly redefining "victory" over Iran?
1:00:16 — Who decided the Jones Act was worth more than cheap diesel?
1:03:38 — Are the bond vigilantes about to make Washington pay for its debt denial?
1:09:50 — Could GLP-1 drugs actually slow human aging?
1:13:07 — A new spinal implant that could end the fusion-surgery era — why it matters to Yaron personally

Audience Questions:
"Was October 7th preventable — or inevitable once leaders chose comfort over truth?"
"Does Netanyahu deserve credit for the war, or blame for the 15 years before it?"
"Is 'meaningful cut in enrichment' a retreat from victory over Iran?"
"Should Mamdani's comments disqualify him from office — or is this outrage theater?"

#October7 #Israel #Hamas #Mamdani #IranWar #Netanyahu #BondMarket #israelhamaswar #france #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Individualism #Objectivism #AynRand #EconomicsExplained

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AI Debate - Gates vs. Huang; France; Wars; Nationalists; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 160)
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Jensen Huang says AI is about to make humanity richer than it's ever been. Bill Gates says we should regulate it like a loaded gun. They can't both be right — so which billionaire actually understands what reason and capitalism built?

Bill Gates wants AI regulated like a chemical plant. Jensen Huang wants to build as fast as physics allows. Yaron Brook breaks down why this isn't a fight about technology — it's a fight about whether risk-aversion or achievement should run the 21st century, and why Gates' Microsoft could never have survived the rules he now wants to impose on everyone else.

Then: France's municipal elections just handed nationalists dozens more cities and nobody has an answer for them — because the "opposition" is just a different flavor of collectivism. Yaron explains why the real fight in the West isn't left versus right anymore, it's individualism versus every collectivist alternative on offer.

Plus: the wars nobody's finishing, why "nationalist" has become a badge of honor on both continents, and the AMA where Yaron takes your toughest questions live.

🔴 Live audience Q&A included — Yaron takes on your questions about AI regulation, French politics, war strategy, and the rise of the new nationalist right, unscripted.

Main Topics
00:00 – Cold open: Gates vs. Huang, framed
06:40 – Why Bill Gates wants AI regulated like Microsoft never was
22:15 – Jensen Huang's case for building without permission
38:50 – Where real rights-violations in AI start — and where "risk" is just fear
55:30 – France's municipal elections: the nationalist right keeps winning
1:12:05 – Why "left vs. right" in Europe is really collectivism vs. collectivism
1:28:40 – The wars with no stated victory condition
1:45:10 – Nationalism's quiet slide toward tribalism — and who it blames next

Audience Questions
2:02:00 – Should AI even be called "artificial intelligence"?
2:08:30 – Is Bill Gates right that unregulated AI is a loaded gun?
2:14:50 – Can France's center actually hold against Le Pen's successor?
2:21:15 – Is the "civil war on the right" real, or one ideology in disguise?
2:27:40 – What does an actual war-winning strategy look like right now?
2:34:00 – Is nationalism just socialism with a flag?

#ArtificialIntelligence #BillGates #JensenHuang #Nationalism #bondmarket  #AIInnovation #economicfreedom #FrancePolitics #ForeignPolicy #IndividualismVsCollectivism #AIRegulation #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand 


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Plague?; Climate Suit; Debt; Brazil Elections; Spain; Cornell7; TX Vaccines; AI App  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 159)
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The global economic engine is stalling—are freedom and individualism our only way out, or are we heading for total systemic collapse?

Is humanity sleepwalking into a global crisis driven by debt, government overreach, and climate alarmism? In this episode, Yaron Brook breaks down the rising tide of authoritarian policies, economic missteps, and ideological battles reshaping our world. From groundbreaking climate lawsuits and mounting national debt to pivotal elections in Brazil and the future of AI technology, Yaron tackles the core philosophical and economic threats facing liberty today.

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Timestamps
00:00 – Intro: The Global State of Freedom & Today’s Topics
03:15 – The Next "Plague"? Pandemics, Control, and Public Health Overreach
12:40 – Climate Lawsuits: Destroying Energy Markets Through the Courts
22:10 – The Looming Global Debt Bomb: Who Pays the Bill?
31:05 – Brazil’s Crossroads: Elections, Freedom, and Populism
41:50 – Spain’s Policy Crisis & Lessons for Western Europe
50:30 – Free Speech Under Siege: The Cornell 7 Case
1:00:15 – Texas Vaccine Controversies & Individual Rights
1:10:00 – AI Apps, Innovation, and Government Regulation Threats

Live Audience Q&A:
1:18:30 – Is government debt intentionally designed to erode individual wealth?
1:24:15 – How do Objectivists handle climate doom-mongering without denying science?
1:30:45 – Can Brazil recover its free-market principles, or is populism permanent?
1:37:20 – Are state-level vaccine mandates a violation of property rights over our own bodies?
1:44:10 – Will regulation kill the AI revolution before it even gets off the ground?
1:51:00 – Wrap-up: Final Thoughts on Standing Up for Individualism
 
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Live Oct 4, 2026
The Yom Kippur War | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 14)

"Four days from annihilation — how did Israel survive the war its own intelligence said could never happen?"

On October 6, 1973 — the holiest day of the Jewish year — Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attack that nearly destroyed the state of Israel. For the first four days, the outcome was not assured. Golda Meir would later say Israel had never faced a graver danger — not even in 1948.

In this episode of Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Yaron Brook — who was 12 years old and living through it in real time — walks through the Yom Kippur War from the inside: the catastrophic intelligence failure that let two armies mass on Israel's borders undetected, the political failure that compounded it, the brutal first 96 hours when Syrian tanks were rolling through the Golan and Egyptian forces had crossed the Suez, and the American airlift that turned the tide. Did Israel actually ready nuclear weapons as a last resort? Yaron and Nikos go there too.

This isn't a dry history lecture. It's a case study in what happens when a free, rights-respecting nation gets complacent about an enemy that never stopped planning to destroy it — and why that lesson didn't stay in 1973.

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Main Topics
00:00 — Intro: why this war still matters 50+ years later
05:00 — Setting the board: the Six-Day War hangover and Sadat's hidden plan
15:00 — October 6, 1973: the attack that caught Israel on its holiest day
28:00 — The intelligence failure — how did Israel miss it?
40:00 — The political failure above the intelligence failure
55:00 — The first four days: when Israel feared it might not survive
1:10:00 — The nuclear question: were weapons readied?
1:25:00 — The American airlift and the turning point
1:40:00 — Aftermath: Agranat Commission, Golda Meir's fall, and what Israel learned

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1:55:00 — "If Nixon hadn't airlifted weapons, does Israel lose this war?"
2:02:00 — "Does October 7th prove Israel never actually learned the 1973 lesson?"
2:09:00 — "Was going nuclear ever a real possibility, or Cold War mythology?"
2:16:00 — "How did a 12-year-old Yaron experience the war in real time?"
2:22:00 — "Could oil-embargo-style economic warfare work against Israel again today?"

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AMA & Hangout with Contributors (Oct 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 158)

Is Trump just an exploitative narcissist wearing capitalism as a costume — and are the people defending him on "policy over character" grounds abandoning the only standard that matters?

Yaron Brook doesn't do softball AMAs. In this live Hangout with Contributors, he takes questions straight from the audience and doesn't flinch — on Trump's character, on whether Iran's regime is actually cracking, on why Stoicism is a consolation philosophy for people who've given up, and on the parenting, workplace, and relationship questions nobody else will answer with actual principles instead of platitudes. If you've ever wondered what reason, individualism, and rational self-interest look like applied to your actual life — not just to geopolitics — this is the episode.

No scripts. No talking points. Just Yaron, live, defending ideas under fire.

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Main Topics
0:20 Opening remarks and panel introduction
1:33 Free markets, Catholicism, and Poland's post-communist reforms
6:12 Ukraine's surrendered nukes and the Budapest Memorandum betrayal
8:11 Daylight savings time — why does government get to set the clock?
12:04 License-plate surveillance and the Fourth Amendment under Flock Safety
20:03 Classical music for beginners — where to actually start
27:00 Vetting local candidates and California's housing reform fight
46:38 Election predictions and what gridlock actually buys you
54:31 Thatcher's legacy and why London still works
59:05 London's millionaire exodus and the UK wealth-tax threat
1:00:59 Bill Gates wants AI regulated — by whom, exactly?
1:09:44 Cornell's due-process scandal and Trump's accountability push
1:24:30 Nihilism and the school riots spreading across France
1:28:03 School choice vs. the push to federalize education
1:30:26 Masculinity and femininity as psychological orientations, not costumes
1:44:25 Steve Jobs, Dagny Taggart, and what masculine presence actually looks like
1:57:02 Why intellectuals hate AI and fear capitalism's own success
2:01:44 Closing remarks — preview of tomorrow's Yom Kippur War show

Live Audience Questions
10:15 "When is government standardization — weights, measures — actually justified?"
17:37 "Should we trust surveillance cameras the way Korea and Canada do?"
32:18 "Is California's zoning reform actually working, or just theater?"
33:36 "I don't have a will yet — what do I actually need in place?"
37:54 "How do I find a job I love without torching my financial safety?"
51:25 "Cardio or strength — how do I actually build a routine that sticks?"
1:04:48 "How do I sell a sculpture — are SoCal galleries even worth it?"
1:06:57 "Is Korean school bullying as brutal as 'Teach Me a Lesson' shows it?"
1:22:15 "Does your education or politics actually determine what you can achieve?"
1:27:06 "Should I move to Austin — is it becoming an Objectivist hub?"
1:33:57 "What does masculinity even mean in a world where reason matters most?"
1:36:15 "Rand on femininity — does it only apply in the bedroom?"
1:39:29 "Do real sex differences matter when I'm hiring someone?"
1:46:17 "Is 'toxic masculinity' a real thing or a media invention?"
1:54:17 "Does visibility online actually wreck your self-esteem?"

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FlyDubai; Iran; Diesel: Economy; Rent; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 157)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/Sc5vO6ast-k

A plumber who'd only ever seen plane crashes on TV just saved 174 lives after a jihadist co-pilot stabbed the captain and nosedived a 737 — so why is diesel at $6.37 a gallon the story nobody in Washington wants to explain?

A co-pilot stabs the captain mid-flight and sends a Boeing 737 plunging 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds. A bleeding pilot unlocks the cockpit door with his last ounce of strength. A plumber named Yaniv Hayun — who'd never flown a plane in his life — grabs the stick and levels it out. That's not a movie pitch. That happened Wednesday on FlyDubai flight FZ1073, and Yaron Brook opens this episode with the full, insane sequence of events — then asks the harder question: what does it mean that Israelis are now a marked target in the one Gulf city they'd flooded into since the Abraham Accords?

From there Yaron tears into why diesel just hit a record $6.37 a gallon — the Strait of Hormuz still half-shut seven months into a war the U.S. could've won in week one, Ukraine's drones gutting Russian refineries, and two decades of Western "net-zero" refinery closures finally coming due. He explains why Trump's flirtation with a diesel export ban is the exact kind of price-control stupidity that makes everything worse, not better. Then it's rents — why Tokyo never freezes and never runs short, while Madrid and New York freeze constantly and stay expensive — a hostile takeover shaking Germany's banking system, a weak jobs report, and a Major League Baseball stat that proves AI already calls a better game than human umpires.
Live audience questions hit London's surprising post-Thatcher vibrancy, European tipping culture, and why tech's AI doomers sound more like a guilt-ridden apocalyptic cult than engineers.

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Main Topics
00:00 — Cold open
07:53 — FlyDubai hijacking: the plumber who saved 174 lives
20:34 — Why Israelis flooded into Dubai — and why that made this a target
26:35 — Iran's economy is collapsing, but the regime isn't going anywhere yet
34:02 — Kevin Hassett's empty promise: "gas relief is coming virtually imminently"
41:36 — Why Trump's diesel export ban would backfire within weeks
44:26 — The Jones Act and 20 years of net-zero refinery closures
1:00:36 — Mortgage rates spike to 7.6%
1:06:46 — Tokyo vs. New York vs. Madrid: rent control manufactures scarcity
1:09:56 — Israel's Supreme Court unanimously reinstates banned Arab parties
1:12:44 — The Iowa steel plant deal: cronyism dressed as "manufacturing revival"
1:14:06 — A hostile takeover rocks Germany's second-biggest bank
1:17:03 — Robot umpires are right half the time the humans are wrong

Live Audience Questions
1:22:17 — "London felt vibrant and capitalist — am I wrong about stagnant Europe?"
1:28:54 — "Are AI doomers just drowning in unearned guilt?"
1:28:54 — "Do Americans really tip better than Europeans?"

#Iran #IranWar #StraitOfHormuz #DieselPrices #RentControl #FlyDubai #economicfreedom #InterestRates #AIRegulation #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #EconomicsExplained

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Live from Madrid 2 (Sept 29, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 156)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/Anji2QvT0QU

"Iran's currency just hit 2.5 million rials to the dollar — so why is Trump still afraid to win this war?"

Iran is losing. Its currency just crashed to a record 2.5 million rials per dollar, inflation is spiraling, and its regime is so desperate it's now threatening to bomb the Saudis and the UAE — because it's too scared to touch Israel. So why is the Trump administration still refusing to finish the job?

Live from Madrid, Yaron Brook tears into the week's biggest contradictions: Trump's threatened diesel export ban and his midnight tariff war on Canadian whiskey — both textbook cases of a president making policy by whim instead of principle. Then Yaron pulls the actual CBO data to demolish the "hollowed-out middle class" myth once and for all — real incomes are up across every income group since 1979, and the rich are shouldering more of the tax burden than ever. He rips apart Anthropic's jaw-dropping $2 trillion IPO filing that openly admits its own product "may pose existential risk to humanity" — and asks who invests in that. And he closes with the 46th anniversary of the Simon-Ehrlich bet, the wager that permanently settled whether the world is running out of anything.

Plus: Spain's eviction ban chaos, the Senate capping what college athletes can earn, and why so many young Americans have started blaming the opposite sex for their problems.

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Main Topics:
0:00 – Intro from Madrid, 46 years of the Simon-Ehrlich bet teased
2:14 – Iran threatens regional infrastructure if its demands aren't met
5:15 – Iran's rial collapses to 2.5 million to the dollar
7:32 – Is the Strait of Hormuz really open? The tanker-tracking numbers
10:32 – Why there's no point going to war unless you're committed to winning it
~14:00 – Trump's diesel export ban: another price-control disaster in the making
~19:00 – Midnight tariffs on Canadian whiskey, dairy, and motorcycles — pure whim
~26:00 – Consumer confidence is falling even though Americans are getting richer
~31:00 – The CBO data that kills the "hollowed-out middle class" myth
~37:00 – The rich are paying more taxes than ever — the opposite of the narrative
~42:00 – Anthropic's $2 trillion S-1 admits its product could be an existential risk
~50:00 – Spain's eviction ban and the Senate's college athlete pay cap
~55:00 – Young Americans blaming the opposite sex
~58:00 – The Simon-Ehrlich bet, 46 years later: scarcity vs. human ingenuity

Live Audience Q&A:
~1:02:00 – "If tariffs are just a tax, why does Trump keep calling them leverage?"
~1:06:00 – "Is regime change in Iran actually still possible at this point?"
~1:10:00 – "If the middle class isn't hollowed out, why does everyone feel poorer?"
~1:14:00 – "Should an AI company be allowed to IPO while admitting it might end humanity?"
~1:18:00 – "Is rent control ever justified in a housing crisis?"
~1:22:00 – "Why do young men and women suddenly hate each other online?"

#IranWar #TradeWar #AIRisk #economicfreedom #InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained

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Live from Madrid (Sept 28, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 155)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/sLrPRT7SZaA

If markets are pricing in "no adults in the room" on U.S. debt, mortgage rates are back above 7%, and Iran just got its president a seat at the UN mid-war — does anyone in Washington actually have a plan, or is everyone just improvising in public?

Yaron Brook finally makes it to a webcam after a week bouncing between Tbilisi, Florence, and Madrid — and he's not easing back in gently. He opens with the story most people are ignoring: 10-year Treasury yields above 5.2%, 30-year above 5.5%, mortgages back over 7%, and a bond market that's stopped pretending anyone in Washington has a debt plan. Then he tears into Iran's latest fake offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calls out Trump's red-carpet groveling to Xi, and makes the case that NVIDIA and a scrappy biotech startup — not government regulation — are the real answer to AI risk. Starship reached orbit. A Hamas operative got asylum in the UK. And somehow Netanyahu, for all his faults, still looks like the last adult in a room full of European politicians who'd rather cave than govern.

Then the audience takes over: CPAs, career advice, zoning fights in your own backyard, whether men are really being "feminized," and why one European capital's mayor just switched parties. Unfiltered capitalism, individualism, and foreign policy — live, from a hotel room in Spain.

Main Topics:
00:00 — Live from Madrid: why there was no show for a week (Tbilisi, Florence, and Georgian hospitality)
09:11 — The real story: 10-year yields above 5.2%, mortgages over 7%, and no adults in the room on U.S. debt
14:55 — Why "deregulation + AI will save us" is a bipartisan fantasy
36:12 — Iran's fake Hormuz reopening offer — and why oil above $100 tells the real story
41:01 — A Hamas bodyguard was granted UK asylum, and Britain barely blinked
58:36 — NVIDIA's OpenShell/Sentry and Red Queen Bio: AI is the answer to AI risk — and Starship reaches orbit
1:44:16 — Why Netanyahu, for all his flaws, is still a giant next to Europe's leaders

Audience Questions:
1:07:24 — "How do I actually vet and trust a CPA before handing them my finances?"
1:18:18 — Should your neighbor get to tear down a house and build multi-family housing next door?
1:40:23 — Poland's mayor just became a Democrat — good sign or empty gesture?
1:42:07 — Are men really being "feminized" in modern society — or is that the wrong word entirely?
1:46:34 — Will Europe's tariff wars hand the next elections to the left?

#InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #Netanyahu #SpaceX #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #MarkZuckerberg #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained

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