Yaron Brook

The application of reason to the creation of human values -- Ingenuity, innovation, creativity, the ability to produce freely based on them, and to keep the rewards of our creation -- this is what we must fight for!

Matt Ridley, The Economist's ex-science editor, comprehensively deconstructs the climate agenda: "We know that in the medieval period, it was warmer than today... So we're not in a period of unprecedented warmth." "We're not in a period of unprecedentedly fast warmth. We're…

That's why being self interested is not what you think

NYT today on steel tariffs: "as imports have declined, American producers have more power to opportunistically increase their prices" "data shows that domestic steel producers have raised prices 16% this year" "American-made steel is the most expensive in the world"😲

So Americans pay higher tariffs on Japanese goods than we did before Trump took office, and that's the "deal"? No thanks. And I look forward to all of this being ruled unconstitutional later this year.

Hey @jubileemedia you should have @yaronbrook on one of your episodes of Surrounded, where he debates 20 anti-capitalists in favor of capitalism

Epstein; Tariffs; Fed; Energy; Sugar; GM; Cronyism; Russia; China; Fusion; AI | Yaron Brook Show x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

It’s a shame that for many “free banking” is identified with antebellum U.S. state banking laws bearing that misleading title, for the term and counterparts (“la banque libre,” “bankfreiheit,” etc.) also refers to banking systems truly unhampered by misguided regulations. 1/

Exactly right, @yaronbrook. The miracle is @JMilei getting elected. The good results from the reforms are exactly what libertarians said would happen. danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/the…

It's surprising, how many people are suprised by Milei's economic success. Free-market economics has always worked, when given a chance. I agree that the surprise is how politically savy he has been and how receptive the Argentinian people are to him reforms. Lots more work to…

thefp.com/p/niall-fergus… 5/5

"While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5

Live at 3:30pm ET Epstein; Fed; Energy; Sugar; GM; Cronyism; Russia; China; Fusion; AI | Yaron Brook Show youtube.com/live/rVZ5P3btu… via @YouTube

In 2012, my coauthors and I published an article* asking, “Has the Fed been a Failure,” that is, had it failed to meet its promise? The answer was “Yes.” I’m confident we proved it. I’m also confident that any substitute the Trump administration comes up with will be even worse.

It’s funny because populists sometimes defend their arguments by saying that economists underestimate how greedy firms are. It’s actually the other way around! Economists treat firms as “maximally greedy,” and that’s how we know that these populist arguments make no sense. 4/

This is something that might sound intuitive but is in fact totally nonsensical. When a supplier charges less to someone else, that doesn’t make them suddenly want to raise price to you. If they could make more profits by charging you more, they would already be doing it. 2/

Lots of populist “economics” makes this mistake. Another example is the idea that inflation is caused by greed. Firms were already greedy! They always set prices to maximize profits. They don’t suddenly become greedy during economic downturns. 3/

Conversation W/ @GeorgeSelgin -- Lessons from The Great Depression | The @YaronBrook Show youtube.com/live/EoEl0PCAB…

The federal government lets them gouge American consumers, bakers, and candy manufacturers, charging us twice the world price for sugar. 🍭