"Talking Brook: 'Yaron Brook Show: Yaron Brook Show: Greta, Central Banks & Questions'"

Dr. Brook engages his audience with multiple topics. This decision is an admirable one as the attention span of his viewers and listeners remain with him throughout the entire show. He begins by addressing the comments that people offered concerning his analysis of Greta. He says that more people have become subjective. He points out that the only alternative for folks like this is for them to “shoot” people with whom they disagree. No arguments, no reasoning, no debate, just force. His sarcasm is laced with a keen awareness that some members of his audience may be hostile to facts in someway. He shrugs all of that off and keeps the show rolling despite their subjectivity.

The good doctor acknowledges that Greta is propaganda (of course). He ponders why Hitler turned an alleged cultured country in Germany into a monster. He further asks what makes Greta possible and what brainwashing is. Here, Dr. Brook challenges his audience to understand the difference between the standard, bad educational system and that it is not brainwashing. He finds it interesting that people celebrate those same lies. Dr. Brook wants to know why people are not “standing up to the lies.” Clarification of the previous show demonstrating how Joan of Arc was a “nut” and not a hero is in line with Dr. Brook’s comparison of her to Greta.

A clarion call for the salvation of Western civilization blares from Dr. Brook’s microphone. He says that the fight must be a moral one. Dr. Brook says that Objectivism is Ayn Rand’s philosophy, and that he is only interpreting it. He urges his followers to read the only Objectivist novelist, the only Objectivist non-fiction writer, and the only Objectivist communicator, Miss Rand. Dr. Brook claims that he is but a vessel to convey the ideas originated by the formulator of Objectivism.

Leftist ideologies include fear. The abandonment of philosophy and ideas leads to nihilism according to Dr. Brook. He finds that epistemology is the weapon to wage war against unreason. His followers must take up the mantle of thought and “fight for freedom over statism.” A transition allows the host to discuss his strongest topic: finance. Particularly, he talks about central banks. He displays the “utter incompetence” of these central bankers. What is the solution? Dr. Brook mimics these unthinking masses that say that people need to be replaced. Dr. Brook reads the conversation that some politicians make who say “New York bankers” when they really mean Jewish bankers. This bit of information exemplifies Dr. Brook’s ability to comprehend the underlying anti-Semitism that is prevalent when it comes to conversations about finance and banking.

“If central planners tried to manage Apple’s supply chain, it would be an utter disaster,” Dr. Brook holds. Despite the examples of The Great Depression, stagflation, and the Great Recession as the fault of central banks namely, the Federal Reserve, bureaucrats continue with the same, tired words and stale actions. Dr. Brook says that the economy should be growing at 4 percent, even 5 percent. He reprimands the Trump Administration for the “tariffs and trade nonsense” that has transpired over the current president’s tenure thus far. Negative interest rates are a complete “upending of financial logic” and a “complete and utter rejection of the basic laws of economics.” With these words, Dr. Brook exhibits his best way of explaining his ire for the central bankers by not talking over or under to his audience but right to them.

To pay someone to have their money taken from them is essentially what the Fed is doing. And what critics appear (besides Dr. Brook) to challenge and deride the policies and existence of the Fed? Few if any. The incentive that the Fed puts out in the universe is to not save and invest. Consumption reigns in the heads of central bankers. Dr. Brook describes that the Chinese save “by exporting their savings, investing in manufacturing and then get dollars and use it to invest.” To Dr. Brook that is a net positive to the United States. Negative interest rates favor consumption over production. In opposition to this idea, working, building, making, and creating, and investing drive the economy.

People consume their savings and this leads to long term negative economic or slow growth. To the good doctor, the Defense budget ought to be reduced because money is often wasted. When President Obama gave rates, the right discounted his numbers. With Trump, the right says that Trump is correct. Dr. Brook holds that Republicans “don’t want to fight the fight.” Why doesn’t anyone question the central planners? Folks just say that things are the way they are, and don’t want to “rock the money helicopter.”

Austrians are the only economists willing to question the Fed, because it is the ultimate job center for graduating economists. Few papers (if any) are written against the Fed because economists may want to work for the US central bank, according to Dr. Brook. Finance is the driving force of all of the markets. “When you cripple finance with Dodd Frank and the central bank, economic growth suffers." The one type of financial personnel that draws the most rancor is the private banker. She is the most selfish. She is the most rational in how she handles money.

Dreams of job options, the better standard of living, greater longevity of life would occur with the power of removing the Federal Bank. The vast amounts of wealth that would be created would arise without the altruists and central planners. Dr. Brook says that “businessmen are the heroes we must protect.” Dr. Brook says that a gold standard ought to be put in place, and the beginning of tearing down the central bank should happen “without fraud being committed.” Central bankers hurt productive people, businesspeople, distort interest rates not aligned with reality, and the standard of morality is “does it hurt the virtuous,” Dr. Brook says. A moral issue is not for the “poor” or “needy.” Dr. Brook holds that “the dollar is bad, because it is detached from reality.” All of this talk of finance lights up Dr. Brook’s face and he flows with even greater fervor than with other topics other than maybe art.

The reason that the Fed was set up was to give politicians more power and “stability” Dr. Brook explains. He finds that there’s no money in loaning to banks because the Fed already does this despite a businessman being a multi-billionaire. In an aside, to dismantle the Fed, you’d need bureaucrats, other politicians, the Congress, voters, and intellectuals all involved.

In relation to a previous entry regarding the opera Manon, Dr. Brook says that “war is stupid,” and that men originated them. Women saw the denial of work, the vote, they couldn’t be artists, and they lacked the ability to hold property rights. Men out there hate women for their good traits like making money. “Competition is about brain power” to Dr. Brook. He concedes that there is still a great deal of progress to be made for women to advance as individuals. There’s still racism out there, and that we should use “knowledge and reason” to combat it.

Foreign policy crops up from a question and Dr. Brook explains that 99 percent of US troops should not be occupying countries all over the world. Additionally, the armed forces should not be building schools and sewer systems, but crushing enemies with the least amount of US casualties and then they should promptly come home.

Admittedly, Dr. Brook says that he’s no psychologist. But, he answers a question on honesty, explaining that it is against your good, selfish consciousness before a lie even reaches the mind of another. Dr. Brook thinks that America should not go to war with Turkey. He says that we shouldn’t be bullied by Turkey and to reprimand them saying that there will be “severe consequences” if they go against what the US says.

Finally, Dr. Brook recommends OCON to a questioner. He says that the person will have “a lot of fun” and engage in discussions and for the person who asked the question to “be him or herself depending on whether they are a good person.”