Episode 121: A Wide-Ranging Conversation with the Always Interesting Yaron Brook
On this episode, I'm talking with Yaron Brook, Chair of the Ayn Rand Institute, in a wide-ranging conversation that launches into the case for why the profit motive is a good thing. Capitalism gets a bad rap in the media and pop culture, but should business be epitomized by Gordon Gecko or Steve Jobs? Was the 2008 financial crisis caused by greedy Wall Streeters or by wrongheaded government policies? We agree that finance, properly understood, is about "win/win" strategies to move capital to more productive uses, but what about all the people left behind by capitalism's "creative destruction?…
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