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Live from Madrid 2 (Sept 29, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show

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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?

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Live Sep 20, 2026
Why Capitalism is Losing & How to Start Winning | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 13)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/0NEiaMMzNAg
"If capitalism has cut world poverty by 90% and cured more disease than every government program combined — why does almost nobody defend it, and why does every generation vote to kill it again?"

Capitalism made you rich. It gave you the phone in your hand, the food on your table, the medicine that keeps your grandparents alive — and almost everyone alive today still thinks it's evil.

In this episode of the Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Yaron Brook and Nikos go after the real reason capitalism keeps losing: it's not an economics problem, it's a morality problem. Every generation, in every country, votes against the system that made them wealthy — because they've been taught that self-interest is shameful and sacrifice is sacred. Yaron argues that no amount of GDP charts or Milton Friedman quotes will fix that. Only a moral revolution will.

Yaron and Nikos dig into why guilt, not ignorance, drives people toward socialism, why "greed" became capitalism's PR disaster, and what it would actually take to start winning the argument again — with young people, on college campuses, and in the culture at large.

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Main topics
00:00 — Cold open: the world got 90% richer in 300 years, and still hates the system that did it
06:15 — Why "capitalism works" has never been enough to win the argument
14:30 — The real fight is moral, not economic
24:00 — How guilt gets built into every entrepreneur's success story
33:45 — Altruism vs. self-interest: the actual battle line
45:10 — Why Bill Gates has to "give it all away" to be forgiven for making it
55:20 — What a moral defense of capitalism actually sounds like
1:05:00 — Where the right and the left both get capitalism wrong
1:15:40 — What "winning" would actually require — culture, not policy

Live audience Q&A
1:24:15 — "If capitalism is so good, why are there still poor people?"
1:29:50 — "Isn't 'greed is good' just handing the left a free win?"
1:35:10 — "How do I defend capitalism to my socialist friends without sounding heartless?"
1:41:00 — "Is Trump-era tariffs and bailouts capitalism, or something else?"
1:47:30 — "Can young people actually be won back, or is it too late?"

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Live from London (Sept 19, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 154)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/NSoOp0Hzlyk

Trump just banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House — so why is Yaron Brook, a lifelong critic of the mainstream media, calling it a First Amendment violation?

Mark Zuckerberg is being compared to Stalin and Mao in a major new profile — and Yaron Brook says that comparison reveals a culture that can't tell the difference between building an app and running a gulag. Live from London after filming three new documentaries (on Karl Marx, on why capitalism keeps losing the argument, and a five-hour deep-dive into his own life), Yaron rips into Trump's press bans as a bipartisan assault on free speech, dismantles Zuckerberg's bizarre Augustus fetish, and explains why he refuses to debate anarchist YouTuber Liquid Zulu. Plus: Pfizer and Lilly's "most favored nation" drug deals, the $100K H-1B fee, a looming Fed rate hike, the Greenland gambit, and America's falling PISA scores.

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Main Topics:
0:00 – London documentaries: Marx, capitalism's failed defenders, and Yaron's own life story
16:25 – Trump bans CNN, MS Now & Politico from the White House
19:24 – Why revoking press passes over content is textbook censorship
25:29 – The Zuckerberg profile: "1 in every 2.3 humans" uses his products
44:34 – Zuckerberg's "Domination" memo and his Augustus obsession
54:36 – Why Yaron won't debate Liquid Zulu on anarchism
1:04:29 – The Fed signals another rate hike this year
1:22:34 – Property rights, anarchism, and what the state is actually for

Live Audience Questions:
1:32:06 – "Who really won the Kinsella vs. Mossoff debate on IP rights?"
1:43:38 – "Roland's $20 Swiss franc question — what's it really worth?"
1:13:25 – "Where's the line between economic power and political power?"

#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Capitalism #MarkZuckerberg #AIRegulation #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained

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Live from London (Sept 16, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 153)
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/ADBp2WNtUfk

Trump just handed the Red Sea to Iran's proxies — so why is Yaron Brook filming a documentary at Karl Marx's grave instead of talking about it?

Yaron Brook is broadcasting live from London — shooting documentary footage at Karl Marx's actual grave, at the original London Stock Exchange, and beside the statues of Adam Smith and John Locke — and he's not happy about what's happening back home. While he's been filming, the Trump administration has reportedly cut a deal letting Iran's Houthi militia choke off a global oil choke point and abandon Saudi Arabia entirely. Yaron calls it out for what it is: a strategic surrender that resurrects Iran from defeat. He also explains — bluntly — why he refuses to debate a popular anarchist YouTuber, why anarchism can never be Objectivism no matter what its fans call themselves, and why AI should face liability, not regulators.

Then he opens the floor: Trump vs. Hitler comparisons, whether rights are contextual, where altruism actually came from, what "FU money" would really change about his life, and what it means to become American.

Unfiltered, live, from London.

🕐 Main Topics
0:00    Why is Yaron filming a documentary standing at Karl Marx's grave — and who's profiting off it?
2:45    Inside the two documentaries: a critical film on Marx, and "why doesn't capitalism win the argument?"
21:47    Why won't Yaron debate anarchist YouTuber Liquid Zulu — and can you even be an "Objectivist anarchist"?
24:32    Is Trump handing the Red Sea to Iran's Houthi militia — and abandoning Saudi Arabia to do it?
30:04    Why a "deal with the devil" over the Bab el-Mandab strait could hand Iran victory out of defeat
~32:00    Should AI be regulated before it causes harm, or should liability law do the job instead?
~36:00    What actually is artificial intelligence — and why does the debate keep getting the definition wrong?

🎤 Live Audience Q&A
~40:00    Is comparing Trump to Hitler a serious argument or just lazy outrage?
~44:00    Is "cruelty is the point" a fair read of Trump-era politics, or a smear?
~48:00    Are individual rights absolute — or does context actually change how they apply?
~51:00    Where did altruism as a moral doctrine actually come from — and why does Yaron reject it?
54:26    What would Yaron actually do differently if he never had to earn another dollar?
~1:02:00    Is Germany's AfD surge a healthy revolt against failed politics, or something more dangerous?
~1:08:00    What actually makes someone American — a passport, or a set of ideas?
~1:14:00    Twenty-five years after 9/11, why does Yaron say the West still hasn't learned the lesson October 7th repeated?
~1:20:00    How can you get a scholarship to study with Yaron at the Academy of Ideas (AIU)?

#IranRegime #MiddleEastCrisis #AIRegulation #Anarchism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism 

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