Every Fix for a Stablecoin Run Ends at the Fed

The design space for making digital dollars run-proof is small, and every exit from it leads to a public balance sheet standing behind private money.

2026-09-11 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 9 min read

The Boom Is the Fuse

A productivity boom and a classic credit crisis are not competing forecasts. They can be two sides of one event — and the boom can be part of the mechanism that produces the collapse.

2026-09-09 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 9 min read

The Fed Has a Brake for Bubbles. It Has Never Once Touched It.

You cannot lobby a linkage and every governor we've built can be lobbied

2026-07-19 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 11 min read

Succession, Not Collapse

An IPO, a Supreme Court ruling, a wealth chart, and a brain drain are one story told four ways. America is not collapsing. It is handing off the future it built.

2026-06-19 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 11 min read

The Mechanism Has a Name

Naomi Klein's thesis, applied to the documentation we have right now.

2026-04-28 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 12 min read

The CEO Should Have Been First

How AI deployment reveals power structure, not value and what would change if it didn't.

2026-04-26 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 8 min read

The Moral Collapse of Technological Superiority

When power loses its conscience, technology becomes the weapon of our undoing.

2025-10-24 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 3 min read

The Cassandra Amendment

A Constitutional Framework for Long-Term Thinking in American Democracy

2025-09-19 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 3 min read

Justice 2.0: Why America Needs a Constitutional AI on the Bench

2025-06-28 · David H. Friedel Jr. · 2 min read