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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