Archive for Tag “regulation”


98 min. Lessons from the Financial Crisis: More Government or Less?

Yaron Brook participated in this moderated debate with Peter Kadzis at the Ford Hall Forum on May 20, 2010, discussing the lessons learned during the financial crisis—from bailouts to reforms to our efforts to prevent another economic disaster.

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11 min. Financial Regulation: How to Kill Jobs in 2,300 Pages or Less

Don Watkins analyzes the implications of the new Financial Reform Bill. (Pajamas TV interview; 11 min.)

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4 min. Net Neutrality

Thomas A. Bowden comments on “net neutrality” and why it is incompatible with freedom. Recorded April 14, 2010, on WTVN (Columbus, Ohio).

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10 min. White House Jobs for Sale?

Don Watkins comments on the Obama administration’s strategy of protecting congressional incumbents by offering White House jobs to their primary challengers, and why this is a distraction from more important issues. (Pajamas TV interview; 10 min.)

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51 min. Bureaucrats vs. Doctors

This episode of The Leonard Peikoff Show was recorded on June 25, 1996.

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12 min. Calling the CEOs

Yaron Brook discusses the summoning of CEOs who forecast harmful financial effects of the new health care bill to testify before congress.

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22 min. A Government, Not a Nanny

Yaron Brook in a discussion of the relationship between the government and its citizens—what it is today, and what it should be. (Pajamas TV interview; 22 min.)

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97 min. The Morality of Investing and Financial Markets

In this talk, delivered at Oxford University on January 20, Yaron Brook defends professional investing as a profoundly moral profession.

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21 min. What Would Ayn Rand Say?

The Vertex hosts this two-part interview with Yaron Brook, encompassing a brief overview of Objectivism, and how Objectivism can help to understand today’s events. A two-part recording of the interview can be downloaded, and a partial transcription is also given. (The Vertex interview; 21 min.)

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45 min. Capitalism Without Guilt

This is a lecture delivered by Yaron Brook at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS). This talk is delivered in English, but the introduction is given in Hebrew. The English portion of the recording begins at 5 minutes.

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