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Live Sep 3, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 146)
Hegseth; Iran; Russia; JDVance; Debt; Oil; Golden Shares; Founders; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show
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If 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.

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Timestamps
00:00 — 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&A
1:05:30 — "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 

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Live Sep 2, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 145)
The Meaning of 9/11—25 Years Later: Objectivism, Islamic Totalitarianism, and America’s Crisis of Ideas with Elan Journo, Onkar Ghate & Yaron Brook
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"Twenty-five years after 9/11 — did America win the war, or did it just forget what the war was even about?"

America didn't just fail to defeat the enemy that attacked it on 9/11. It refused to even name that enemy — and 25 years later, that refusal is why the war never actually ended.

In this episode, Yaron Brook sits down with Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate of the Ayn Rand Institute to ask the question nobody in Washington wants to answer: what actually was 9/11, ideologically, and why did America's response guarantee it would happen again? They trace the line from a "War on Terror" that never named Islamic Totalitarianism as the enemy, through the strategic collapse in Afghanistan and Iraq, to a country that now doubts its own founding ideas more than it doubts the men who attacked it. This isn't a history lesson. It's a diagnosis of why the confidence America had on September 10, 2001 is gone — and what it would take to get it back.

🔴 Live audience Q&A included — Yaron, Elan, and Onkar take real viewer questions on Islamism, foreign policy, and American self-doubt.

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Timestamps:
0:23 — Opening: the principles of freedom and why 9/11's anniversary still matters
1:25 — Introducing Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate
2:18 — The history nobody teaches: what actually led to 9/11
3:40 — The Iranian Revolution and the birth of modern Islamism
5:32 — Years of attacks on American interests — and why the U.S. kept appeasing
7:27 — Bin Laden declared war on America years before 9/11 — why did nobody listen?
10:38 — Was U.S. foreign policy paralyzed by its own guilt?
13:34 — The morning America's illusions ended
14:12 — Post-Cold War optimism and why it left America exposed
17:27 — How 9/11 rewired daily life, from airports to everything else
19:37 — The real failure wasn't intelligence — it was ideas
21:33 — Did Edward Said's "Orientalism" disarm the West's ability to name its enemy?
23:02 — How altruism as a foreign policy doctrine gets Americans killed
27:01 — What America believed about itself in the '80s and '90s — and lost
27:49 — 9/11's aftermath: the response that set the tone for 25 years
28:27 — Inside Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism
31:01 — How the government talked about 9/11 — and what it refused to say
34:15 — Why wouldn't the Bush administration say the word "Islam"?
39:49 — Religiosity, secularism, and the anti-American current inside the West
43:41 — The Ayn Rand Institute's response — and the media backlash
50:10 — "Winning the Unwinnable War": taking the argument to campuses
54:01 — Soldiers sent to sacrifice for a war nobody would define
57:39 — The philosophical framework the West still refuses to adopt
58:27 — Bush's "democracy crusade" — and Sharia written into new constitutions
1:01:44 — The Arab Spring, Hamas winning elections — the same mistake, repeated

Audience Questions
1:08:00 — Did the West ever actually name its enemy, or just its tactics?
1:16:00 — Is Islamic Totalitarianism still winning 25 years later?
1:24:00 — What would it take for America to actually believe in itself again?
1:33:00 — Was Iraq a mistake in execution, or a mistake in principle?
1:41:00 — Closing thoughts: what victory should have looked like, and still could

#911TwentyFiveYears #IslamicTotalitarianism #WarOnTerror #NationalSecurity #jihad #islamism #september11th #altruism #collectivism   #AynRand #IndividualRights #Objectivism #ObjectivismExplained 

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Live August 25, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 144)
Moscow; Iran; Canada; Data Centers; Bessent; Amargi ; Sit Awareness; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

Why did America's top spy make a secret four-hour trip to Moscow — and is Putin about to test NATO while Trump's own Treasury Secretary admits he's bluffing on Iran?

America's CIA Director just made an unannounced trip to Moscow. Within hours, Yaron Brook is connecting it to a chilling possibility: Putin may be gearing up to test NATO on the ground, not just in rhetoric. Then he turns to Treasury Secretary Bessent, who just admitted on camera that the U.S. won't actually impose the Iran sanctions it announced — because Washington doesn't want to "blow up the global financial system." Add a real trade war with Canada started by a president who, in Yaron's words, "has the economics understanding of a five-year-old," a Texas AG who wants to make data centers criminally liable for what kids type into chatbots, and a 24-year-old hedge fund manager who turned $45 billion into ash through leverage — and you've got one of the most consequential news days of the year.

Yaron Brook breaks down foreign policy, economics, and culture through the lens of reason, individual rights, and capitalism. No spin. No both-sides-ism. Just the argument.

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Timestamps:
0:00 — Is Trump's foreign policy actually worse than everyone feared?
~3:30 — Why did the CIA Director secretly fly to Moscow for four hours — is Putin testing NATO next?
~15:00 — Bessent admits the quiet part out loud: are Iran sanctions just an empty threat?
32:46 — Trump says the U.S. "lost" $60 billion to Canada — but where exactly did that money go?
35:36 — Is a trade deficit ever actually a loss?
52:32 — Should data centers be criminally liable for what a kid types into a chatbot?
58:05 — Is Bessent the least serious man in the Trump administration?
1:18:49 — Should the U.S. just cancel the national debt like ancient Sumer did?
1:21:50 — Is taxing the rich harder ever going to fix the deficit?
1:27:54 — How did a 24-year-old turn a hedge fund into $45 billion — and then torch it in weeks?
1:41:59 — What does this collapse prove about the danger of leverage?
1:47:00 — Remembering Dolly Parton and the quiet global win of polio eradication.

#Iran #Russia #NATO #Canada #TariffWars #DataCenters #ArtificialIntelligence #NationalDebt #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #Ukraine #FederalReserve #FreeMarkets #AynRand #Objectivism 

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Live August 24, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 143)
Bonds; Gerontocracy; Canada; Iran; Ukraine; DSA; Nvidia; Achievement  | Yaron Brook Show
Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/KkFrGluzXhk

"The U.S. Treasury just started buying back its own debt — is this the first sign of a bond market panic Washington can't admit to?"

The U.S. government has no cash lying around, no surplus, and no plan to ever run one — so how is the Treasury now buying back its own long-term bonds? Yaron Brook opens this episode tearing into a debt shell game that swaps long-term bonds for short-term ones, leaving America exposed the moment interest rates climb. Then he turns to the people running the country: a gerontocracy of octogenarian leaders clinging to power while the next generation waits.

From there — Canada's tariff standoff, the real state of the Iran ceasefire and whether "regime change" ever left the table, why Russia's gamble in Ukraine keeps backfiring, the Democratic Socialists of America's quiet takeover of blue America, whether Nvidia is riding a real AI boom or an inflating bubble, and the human achievement story that'll restore your faith in progress. Not a fan of hedging — Yaron tells you exactly what he thinks and why.

Timestamps:
2:15 — Bonds: is the Treasury's buyback scheme a debt-crisis warning sign?
16:40 — "If the government is broke, why isn't anyone in Washington saying so?"
22:00 — Gerontocracy: why is America run by 80-year-olds?
34:10 — Canada: is Trump's tariff war a self-inflicted wound?
47:30 — "Should Canada just ignore Trump and go it alone on free trade?"
53:00 — Iran: did the ceasefire hand Tehran a win?
1:08:15 — Ukraine: is Putin's war strategy collapsing from within?

 🎤 Live Audience Questions:
1:19:40 — "Does Ukraine actually have a path to winning, or are we funding a stalemate?"
1:27:00 — DSA: is socialism quietly capturing the Democratic Party?
1:41:20 — Nvidia: AI boom or AI bubble?
1:53:10 — "Is Nvidia's valuation rational or the next dot-com moment?"
2:02:00 — Achievement: the story that proves human progress isn't dead

#USDebtCrisis #IranPolicy #Ukraine #DemocraticSocialists #Nvidia #AIBubble #bondmarket #Ukraine #FederalReserve #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters  #Capitalism  #Objectivism #FreeMarkets 

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Live Aug 23, 2026
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 11)
Patrick Deneen & The Post Liberal Right | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues

Patrick Deneen says liberalism failed because it succeeded — freedom gave people too much of it, and now he wants a new elite to rule in the name of the "common good." Is that a critique of the West, or the oldest excuse for tyranny wearing a Notre Dame faculty badge?

Patrick Deneen says America needs "regime change" — not at the ballot box, but a quiet takeover by a new elite who'll rule for the "common good" instead of individual rights. He calls it postliberalism. Yaron Brook calls it what it actually is: aristocracy with a syllabus.

Deneen's bestselling books — Why Liberalism Failed and Regime Change — have become the intellectual bible of the post-liberal right, blurbed by Obama, quoted by JD Vance, cited by the "common good conservatives" reshaping the GOP. His argument: individual freedom itself is the disease. The cure is a ruling class willing to override your choices for the sake of the collective.

In this episode of Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos take Deneen's ideas apart line by line — where "common good" politics actually leads, why every attack on individualism ends up defending the same thing (power over you), and why the post-liberal right and the woke left are closer than either side wants to admit. If you've heard people say liberalism "went too far," this episode explains exactly what they mean — and why they're wrong.

Main Topics: 
00:00 — Cold open: what "regime change" actually means in Deneen's own words 
06:30 — Who is Patrick Deneen, and why did Obama put him on a reading list? 
15:00 — "Liberalism failed because it succeeded" — unpacking the core claim 
26:00 — The "common good" con: how collectivism always smuggles itself in through a nice-sounding phrase 
38:00 — Aristopopulism: Deneen's plan for a new elite to rule over the "many" 
50:00 — Is this Catholic integralism with a populist paint job? 
1:02:00 — Where the post-liberal right and the woke left secretly agree

Live Audience Questions: 
1:14:00 — Is Deneen just describing real problems badly, or is his solution the actual danger? 
1:20:30 — Does JD Vance actually believe this stuff, or is he just borrowing the vocabulary? 
1:27:00 — Can a "new elite" ever rule for anyone but itself? 
1:34:00 — Is national conservatism just socialism with incense and a flag? 
1:41:00 — What's the actual liberal (classical) answer to the loneliness and rootlessness Deneen describes?

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Live Aug 22, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 142)
AMA & Hangout with Contributors (Aug 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
Watch Now:  https://youtube.com/live/PrpBxeosgoQ

No topic. No script. No filter. Once a month, Yaron Brook opens the mic to the people who fund the show and lets them ask anything — geopolitics, philosophy, current events, or "Yaron, was I wrong to argue with my brother-in-law about tariffs at dinner." This is that episode.

There's no guest, no prepared topic, and no safe question in this one. This is the monthly AMA & Hangout — contributors only get to run the show, and Yaron Brook answers live, unfiltered, on whatever's actually on their minds this week.

Expect the format to jump: a philosophical question about Objectivism one minute, a hot take on that day's headlines the next, then straight into someone's personal dilemma about applying rational self-interest in real life. No teleprompter. No do-overs. Just direct answers from someone who's spent 30 years defending capitalism and doesn't flinch from a hard question.

If you want to see how Yaron thinks in real time — not the polished monologue, the actual reasoning — this is the episode to watch.

Timestamps
00:00 — Cold open: why the AMA format exists and what makes it different from a normal show
05:20 — Housekeeping: contributor shoutouts and how to submit future questions
09:45 — 🎤 "What's the one position you've changed your mind on in the last year, and why?"
18:30 — 🎤 "Is there a moral case for voting third-party, or is that just moral posturing?"
27:10 — 🎤 "How do you defend capitalism to someone who thinks it's already failed them personally?"
36:00 — 🎤 "Where do you draw the line between healthy self-interest and being a jerk?"
45:15 — 🎤 "What's a philosophical idea you think is badly misunderstood even by people who agree with you?"
54:40 — 🎤 "If you were 22 again, what would you actually do differently?"
1:03:20 — 🎤 Rapid-fire: current events lightning round
1:12:00 — 🎤 "What keeps you optimistic about the culture right now, if anything?"
1:20:30 — Closing thoughts and what's coming next on the show

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Live August 21, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 141)
Stanford Lets a Socialist Define Capitalism -- Answering Chiara Cordelli | Yaron Brook Show
Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/RdW7wmHwW6w

A political philosopher stood in front of Stanford students and told them capitalism's real sin isn't exploitation — it's that free people get to decide their own future without asking permission first. Nobody in that room challenged her. Yaron Brook does.

Chiara Cordelli says the "wrong" of capitalism isn't profit, isn't inequality, isn't even exploitation — it's that private investors, not the collective, get to decide what the future looks like. Her fix? Democratize investment. Plan it. Take that decision out of your hands and put it in the state's.

Yaron Brook takes her argument apart at the root: capitalism was never an "investment system," it's a rights system — the first social order in human history built on the principle that force has no place between people. Cordelli isn't describing a flaw in capitalism. She's describing the thing that makes it moral, and she wants it gone.

If you've ever wondered how elite universities keep producing "sophisticated" cases for socialism dressed up in academic language, this is the episode that shows you the trick — and the answer.

Timestamps 
00:00 — Cold open: Why a Stanford philosopher's "critique" of capitalism is really an argument for central planning 
06:30 — What capitalism actually is — and why markets and competition aren't it 
14:15 — Cordelli's real claim: capitalism "alienates" you from control over the future 
23:40 — The switch — "alienation" is just exploitation with a Ph.D. 32:10 — Why "democratizing investment" means putting a gun behind every business decision 
41:00 — Individual rights vs. collective control: the actual fight nobody at Stanford will name 
50:25 — How elite academia launders socialism as "normative political theory" 

🎤 Live Q&A:
1:02:15 —  "Isn't some collective input on investment just democracy?" 
1:09:40 — "If capitalism causes inequality, isn't that itself an alienation?" 
1:17:05 — "What do you say to students who've never heard a defense of capitalism?"
1:26:30 — Closing: The one sentence Cordelli can't get around

#Capitalism #Socialism #AynRand #IndividualRights #FreeMarkets #StanfordUniversity #Objectivism #EconomicFreedom #ObjectivismExplained #WealthInequality #MixedEconomy 

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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.

Live August 20, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 140)
Econ War; N.Korea; Ukraine; Army; DataCenters; Interest; Buy Elections; Rogan; AI | Yaron Brook Show

Is North Korea's economy booming because communism finally works — or because it's selling dead soldiers to Putin by the truckload, and Washington is too busy gutting its own Navy and juicing the AI boom to notice the world is quietly rearranging itself around America?

North Korea's economy is booming — and it has nothing to do with communism working. It's an arms factory for a dying Russian war machine, and Yaron Brook breaks down exactly how that racket works, why it collapses the day the Ukraine war ends, and why nobody in Washington is paying attention.

That's just the opening. Today Yaron rips into the Treasury's dangerous game of swapping long-term debt for short-term debt to dodge high interest rates, explains why ripping the guts out of America's military readiness is a five-alarm strategic error, and calls out the billionaire-bashing "buy an election" narrative for the lie it is. Plus: the data center backlash that's really a war on prosperity, whether AI is capitalism's greatest proof of concept or its next moral panic, and a hard look at the ideas floating around in Rogan-world.

If you think economics, war, and technology are separate conversations, this episode will change your mind. Reason. Individual rights. Capitalism. No exceptions.

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TIMESTAMPS 
00:00 – Why North Korea's "economic miracle" is a war-profiteering mirage 
07:40 – The Fed's shell game: is swapping long bonds for short debt setting up a rate-shock disaster? 
19:15 – Ukraine vs. Russia: how Putin's "quick war" turned into the unraveling of Russian power 
31:50 – Gutting the Army and Navy: is Washington trading military readiness for political theater? 
44:20 – Data centers: why the backlash against AI infrastructure is really a backlash against prosperity 
58:05 – "Buying elections": debunking the billionaire class-war narrative 
1:12:30 – AI as capitalism's proof of concept — or the next excuse for central planning? 
1:24:10 – Rogan-world ideas under the microscope: populism, nostalgia, and the anti-capitalist right 
1:36:00 – Achievement of the day

LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A 
1:45:00 – "If North Korea's boom is fake, why does it look so real on satellite images?" 
1:49:30 – "Should the U.S. actually be worried about losing naval dominance — or is this overblown?" 
1:54:15 – "Are billionaires really 'buying' elections, or is that just envy dressed up as policy?" 
1:59:40 – "Is AI going to concentrate wealth in fewer hands, or spread it wider than ever?" 
2:05:00 – "Why do so many young conservatives sound like socialists when they talk about capitalism?"

#Capitalism #Objectivism #NorthKorea #Ukraine #FederalReserve #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #FreeMarkets #trump #trade #TariffsAreTaxes #israel #ForeignPolicy #AynRand

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Live August 19, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 139)
Data Centers; Navy; Gov Ownership; Wall; Tariffs; Turkey; Primaries; Achievement| Yaron Brook Show
Watch Now: https://youtube.com/live/66x869m8D6g

The U.S. Navy just ripped out its best carrier catapults to install 1950s steam technology — because Trump doesn't like how electromagnetic looks. Meanwhile Washington now owns equity stakes in 31 private companies. Is this still capitalism, or is it something else wearing capitalism's face?

America's most dangerous problem this week isn't a foreign enemy — it's Washington deciding it knows better than physics, markets, and 250 years of naval engineering. Yaron breaks down Trump's order to gut electromagnetic catapults off new aircraft carriers in favor of steam (yes, really), why the U.S. will have zero carriers in the Western Pacific for the first time in memory, and how the government quietly took equity stakes in 31 companies — from Intel to nuclear power to quantum computing — with no vote from Congress. Yaron also hits Josh Shapiro's war on AI data centers, a pointless border wall through Big Bend National Park, Israel's strike near Turkey's doorstep, a Democratic Socialist's shocking Florida primary win, Sweden's capitalist pivot, and real human achievement in the fight against cancer.

If you think tariffs, government equity, and industrial nostalgia are "America First," you need to hear the actual math.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 
1:36 – The Treasury's dangerous bond-swap shell game 
8:15 – Data center backlash: America's new Luddism 
26:40 – The U.S. Navy's steam-catapult disaster 
48:20 – Washington now owns pieces of 31 companies. Is this still capitalism? 
1:07:45 – The border wall nobody needed, through a national park 
1:15:19 – Israel strikes Syria's Abu Duhur airbase — what it means for Turkey 
1:22:43 – A Democratic Socialist just crushed a Florida primary. Should Republicans panic? 1:26:30 – Sweden goes capitalist and mRNA vaccines take on cancer — actual good news 

🎤 LIVE AUDIENCE QUESTIONS 
1:32:00 – Is Trump's Navy redesign a strategy or just an aesthetic whim? 
1:38:00 – If the government owns equity in Intel, are we still a free-market country? 
1:44:00 – Do tariffs ever actually lower foreign tariffs, or is that a myth? 
1:51:00 – Can a democratic socialist actually win a statewide race in 2026? 
1:58:00 – What does "achievement" mean when politics feels this broken?

#Trump #DataCenters #USNavy #Tariffs #TariffsAreTaxes #trade #Capitalism #Objectivism #ForeignPolicy #FreeMarkets #AynRand

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Live August 18, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12 - Episode 138)
Tariffs; Meta; ABC; Russia; Economy; China AI; Publishing; Antitrust; Achievements| Yaron Brook Show
Watch Now: https://www.youtube.com/live/_8rd9pSE4r0

"Trump just used a Great Depression-era tariff law to tax our closest ally 50% — on the trade deal he negotiated himself. Is economic self-harm now the plan?"

Trump just invoked Smoot-Hawley-era authority to hit Canada with 50% tariffs — an ally, not an enemy, retaliating against tariffs we started. Nobody wins. Everybody pays.

Today: Meta faces a $1 trillion lawsuit trying to make it liable for your kid's phone habits. ABC sues the FCC and I'm fully on their side. A Russian court just gave an opposition politician 11 years for a tweet — still think Putin's the good guy? The debt hit $40 trillion early, 30-year yields are at 2007 levels, and nobody in DC will say "spending cuts." Plus China's AI, a wild antitrust probe into a16z, and the best-hidden good news of the year: crime and even NYC rats are falling.

Timestamps: 
1:50 – Trump's 50% Canada tariffs: has a tariff threat ever worked? 
9:54 – Should Canada just quit negotiating and go free trade? 
13:08 – Meta's $1 trillion lawsuit: who's really responsible for kids' phones? 
21:54 – ABC vs. FCC: is Carr running a First Amendment shakedown? 
24:47 – Russia jails a politician for 11 years over a tweet 
35:15 – Debt hits $40T early — what happens when interest beats the Pentagon budget? 
50:24 – Only 13% of fund managers beat the market — so why pay them? 
1:00:48 – DOJ antitrust probe hits Trump's own VC allies 
1:06:56 – Crime is at generational lows — so why does everyone think it's chaos?

🎙️ Live Q&A: 
• "Why do economists still defend tariffs if they're always a tax on us?" 
• "Doesn't Meta bear some blame for engineering addiction?" 
• "Is there a peaceful way out of the debt spiral?"

#Tariffs #SmootHawley #MetaLawsuit #FirstAmendment #NationalDebt #FreeSpeech #Antitrust #ChinaAI #maga #trump #TariffsAreTaxes #Capitalism #Objectivism #ForeignPolicy #FreeMarkets #AynRand

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