Yaron Brook Show Privatizing Fannie; Fed Picks; Crypto Crazy; Israel/World; Ukraine War; Media | Yaron Brook Show
Aug 8, 2025
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🚨 August 8, 2025| | Privatizing America’s Mortgage Giants, The Fed’s New Power Game, Crypto Mania, and the West’s Blind Spots on Israel & Ukraine | Yaron Brook Show
🚨Yaron Brook takes on the week’s most explosive issues: the case for fully privatizing Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (and why both parties fear it), the dangerous politics of picking Federal Reserve leaders, and the wild speculation and fraud infecting the crypto space.
From Israel’s lonely fight for moral clarity to the Ukraine War’s brutal cost-benefit reality, Yaron exposes the philosophical and political fault lines the media refuses to touch. Plus: an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal you didn’t hear about, the GOP’s IRS games, and the deeper reason Europeans can’t stomach Israel’s existence.
In the live Q&A, Yaron tackles rights for dementia patients and people in comas, Bitcoin vs. T-Bills, the win-lose nature of investing, disturbing echoes between Hitler and Trump’s rhetoric, Germany’s dangerous free speech “fix,” and whether clever AIs deserve rights. It’s sharp, it’s uncompromising, and it’s a masterclass in moral clarity over political fog.
đź“Ť Key Segments:
02:05 Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
14:40 Fed Picks
23:55 Crypto Crazy
43:25 Israel/World
53:00 Ukraine War
1:00:35 Azerbaijan and Armenia peace deal
1:04:30 January 6
1:06:00 Media
1:15:40 Lisbon
Live Questions:
1:21:35 Children have rights because they have the potential to develop reason. But how does this apply to dementia patience, people in comas? There are a class of humans that will never regain or develop the use of reason, why are rights extended to them?
1:25:29 If bitcoin becomes a national currency in America, does it then compete with T-Bills?
1:27:28 Is every stock/bitcoin investment a venture towards a win-lose outcome, where the investor hopes to profit within the cloud of financial potential/chaos?
1:30:46 What is it in the European’s philosophy that makes them so galled and animated by Israel?
1:32:48 Trump just fired the head of the IRS. Is this a signal to encourage more tax evasion? Is the GOP trying to make it harder for the IRS to operate?
1:33:54 Even without Rand, doesn't humanity gradually learn to be more reasonable and less violent?
1:34:53 Did you know there is a Basque community in Boise, ID?
1:36:15 Is it worth for Putin to lose all the huge benefits of trade with the Western world over 15% of Ukraine? Won't Russians hate him for this for decades?
1:38:33 is Milei privatizing water to the Israeli government owned company called Mekorot? if so, is that bad? also, do you think he'll win reelection?
1:39:46 Thank you for the .com comparison. Apt.
1:39:54 How Objectivism will consider really clever AIs (AGI)? They would poses reason, which makes them like us humans, but can we consider them a life form?
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🚨Yaron Brook takes on the week’s most explosive issues: the case for fully privatizing Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (and why both parties fear it), the dangerous politics of picking Federal Reserve leaders, and the wild speculation and fraud infecting the crypto space.
From Israel’s lonely fight for moral clarity to the Ukraine War’s brutal cost-benefit reality, Yaron exposes the philosophical and political fault lines the media refuses to touch. Plus: an Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal you didn’t hear about, the GOP’s IRS games, and the deeper reason Europeans can’t stomach Israel’s existence.
In the live Q&A, Yaron tackles rights for dementia patients and people in comas, Bitcoin vs. T-Bills, the win-lose nature of investing, disturbing echoes between Hitler and Trump’s rhetoric, Germany’s dangerous free speech “fix,” and whether clever AIs deserve rights. It’s sharp, it’s uncompromising, and it’s a masterclass in moral clarity over political fog.
đź“Ť Key Segments:
02:05 Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
14:40 Fed Picks
23:55 Crypto Crazy
43:25 Israel/World
53:00 Ukraine War
1:00:35 Azerbaijan and Armenia peace deal
1:04:30 January 6
1:06:00 Media
1:15:40 Lisbon
Live Questions:
1:21:35 Children have rights because they have the potential to develop reason. But how does this apply to dementia patience, people in comas? There are a class of humans that will never regain or develop the use of reason, why are rights extended to them?
1:25:29 If bitcoin becomes a national currency in America, does it then compete with T-Bills?
1:27:28 Is every stock/bitcoin investment a venture towards a win-lose outcome, where the investor hopes to profit within the cloud of financial potential/chaos?
1:30:46 What is it in the European’s philosophy that makes them so galled and animated by Israel?
1:32:48 Trump just fired the head of the IRS. Is this a signal to encourage more tax evasion? Is the GOP trying to make it harder for the IRS to operate?
1:33:54 Even without Rand, doesn't humanity gradually learn to be more reasonable and less violent?
1:34:53 Did you know there is a Basque community in Boise, ID?
1:36:15 Is it worth for Putin to lose all the huge benefits of trade with the Western world over 15% of Ukraine? Won't Russians hate him for this for decades?
1:38:33 is Milei privatizing water to the Israeli government owned company called Mekorot? if so, is that bad? also, do you think he'll win reelection?
1:39:46 Thank you for the .com comparison. Apt.
1:39:54 How Objectivism will consider really clever AIs (AGI)? They would poses reason, which makes them like us humans, but can we consider them a life form?
đź”— Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/XVK7kAz1L_E
👉 Subscribe to the channel and join us live next time: / @yaronbrookshow
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đź’Ą Expect controversy. Expect insight. Expect truth.
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The 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/
Join this channel to get access to perks: / @yaronbrook
Or make a one-time donation: https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ
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
#freddiemac #fanniemae #mortgages #bitcoin #russiaukrainewar #israelhamaswar #gaza #selfishness #egoism #capitalism #philosophy #Morality ​​#Objectivism​ #AynRand #politics
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