Trade & Tariffs in American History | Yaron Brook Show

📺 The Yaron Brook Show | August 2, 2025 | Trade & Tariffs in American History

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What if the biggest threat to American prosperity isn’t foreign nations—but our own economic ignorance? In this fiery episode, Yaron Brook takes you on a journey through the forgotten history of trade and tariffs in the United States. From Alexander Hamilton’s protectionist dreams to the Smoot-Hawley disaster and today’s populist trade wars, Yaron exposes the persistent myth that government can "protect" American jobs by punishing trade.

He dismantles the nationalist fairy tales told by both the left and right—showing how tariffs hurt the very people they claim to help, stifle innovation, and betray the founding ideals of liberty and individualism. Expect no mercy for economic fallacies—this is Yaron Brook at his intellectual best: challenging the populists, correcting the historians, and defending capitalism with uncompromising clarity.

🔴 Watch now and discover why real economic patriotism means free trade, not trade wars.

💥 Expect controversy. Expect insight. Expect truth.

🧠 Thought-provoking. Bold. Unapologetically rational.  If you’re looking for intellectual fuel, moral clarity, and some philosophical firepower—you’re in the right place.

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Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.