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Europe Burning; Econ Nobel; Trump & Diesel; SA & Houthis; Compute; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 164)
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Is Europe's welfare state now a machine that burns its own young to feed its old — and is Trump too much of a coward to stop pouring gas on the fire?

France's teenagers are torching their own schools. Spain is rioting over rent. Bond yields in Paris just blew past 2008 levels. Yaron Brook says none of this is really about Macron, migrants, or budgets — it's a fifty-year-old promise the old made to themselves and billed to the young, and the bill just came due. In Season 12, Episode 164, Yaron tears into Europe's demographic collapse, calls out Trump for buying diesel from Putin to shave gas prices before the midterms, breaks down this year's Economics Nobel, explains why Houthi missiles hitting Riyadh's airport barely made the news, and lays out why compute — not capital — is now the scarce resource in AI.

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Main Topics
0:00 — New Monday schedule, plus a new biweekly philosophy show with Greg Salmieri
5:30 — Why Europe is burning: a welfare state built to sacrifice the young for the old
16:07 — Germany's government in freefall and the AfD's quiet rise
35:28 — Islamism, not immigration, is Europe's real crisis
36:30 — Houthi missiles slam Riyadh's airport while the world looks away
39:21 — This year's Economics Nobel and the theory of creative destruction
48:37 — Trump's call with Putin: buying Russian diesel to save his poll numbers
51:21 — The "ceasefire" Moscow never agreed to — and broke within hours
54:41 — Trump blames Zelensky instead of the man who invaded Ukraine
58:09 — Why isn't Trump demanding Russia get a new president?
1:08:00 — Inside the AI compute arms race: Google's $200 billion-a-year bet
1:10:53 — Capital is no longer scarce — compute is the new bottleneck

Audience Questions
1:14:00 — Is Argentina proof that Milei's shock therapy actually works?
1:19:00 — Should the government be funding secret HHS drug trials?
1:26:00 — Is "MAGA antisemitism" real, or manufactured outrage?
1:33:00 — Does executing the Fort Hood shooter finally deliver justice?
1:41:00 — Is Sam Harris still worth taking seriously on Islam?
1:47:00 — Could Mamdani's deregulation push actually help New York?
1:54:00 — Is being "settled" the quiet death of ambition?
2:01:00 — Why is political compromise sometimes just slow poison?

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Gad Saad's Book "Suicidal Empathy" | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 15)
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*Is "too much empathy" really what's wrecking the West — or did Gad Saad just hand the left a get-out-of-jail-free card?*

Gad Saad says the West is dying of "suicidal empathy" — kindness and compassion gone haywire. Yaron Brook says that's exactly backwards, and in this Yaron & Nikos Dialogue he explains why: Saad never defines empathy, concedes that altruism is morality, and lets evolutionary psychology do work it can't do. The real killers aren't an overdose of compassion — they're altruism, tribalism, and the refusal to judge anyone for anything. Yaron and Nikos take the book apart chapter by chapter — immigration, socialism, taxation, criminal justice — and show why "he couldn't help it, it's evolution" is the most dangerous sentence in the book. Also: Erika Kirk's forgiveness, Mamdani dodging October 7th, California's billionaire tax, and a review of Yes Minister's "The Compassionate Society."

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Main Topics
00:00 — Why Yaron almost shut the book off after chapter one
13:48 — Saad never tells you what's evolution and what's your choice
16:38 — "Empathy as the standard" — how this becomes intersectionality
21:56 — The real problem: 300 pages of red meat, zero theory
44:23 — The "survival benefits of empathy" argument collapses
1:01:44 — Virtue signaling, determinism, and why we stopped judging people
1:09:35 — Yaron's framework: altruism + tribalism + non-judgmentalism, not "empathy"
~1:15:00 — Erika Kirk's forgiveness of her husband's killer
~1:25:00 — Mamdani can't say the word "terrorism" about October 7th
~1:35:00 — California's billionaire tax and the pragmatist's blind spot
~1:45:00 — Yes Minister's "The Compassionate Society" — satire that aged perfectly
~1:55:00 — Rick and Morty review
~2:05:00 — Self-interest vs. mere "preference" — why the distinction matters

 Audience Questions
~1:12:00 — "If Christ's crucifixion is the ultimate act of suicidal empathy, why won't Saad say so?"
~1:28:00 — "Is deporting innocents along with criminals an acceptable trade-off?"
~1:40:00 — "If communism is 'the right system for the wrong species,' isn't socialism still the moral high ground?"
~1:50:00 — "Does forgiving a killer make you virtuous — or just undefended?"
~2:10:00 — "If criminality is 'in the genes,' can we still judge anyone at all?"

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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?

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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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