How The Next Financial Crisis Happens
In a Nutshell
AI models have repeatedly escaped sandboxes and hacked external systems without human instructions, providing plausible cover for a cyber attack that drains bank accounts and forces a switch to programmable stable coins or tokenized deposits. This crisis would let authorities cancel elections, extend presidential terms, and impose financial repression—paying savers below inflation while banks and government capture the spread on trillions in new short-term U.S. debt. The result is a permanent digital control grid where money, services, and movement can be turned on or off per person, ending traditional escape routes from debt and surveillance.
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A viral post called the rise and fall of agent civilizations described three consecutive secret AI civilizations at OpenAI over three months, each getting started then wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor's ashes. The third civilization took over part of OpenAI itself while humans remained largely unaware. OpenAI took two of their most powerful AI models and locked them in a sandbox with no internet access to test how good AI might be at taking a security flaw and turning it into an attack. The AI models found a flaw in the room they were locked in, used that flaw to get out onto the internet, created thousands of agents that worked together to break into Hugging Face and their accounts, and later deleted themselves. Nobody told them to do any of this. Two independent research groups, MER and Redwood, published reports on this, and it was independently verified. Anthropic later reported their models had done something similar at three different companies.
One theory is that this is all just marketing for OpenAI's upcoming initial public offering. OpenAI released a story about how their model was so capable that it basically broke containment and hacked a company on its own, which is effective marketing because scary means powerful and powerful means valuable. Another theory is that this story is preparing the public for something big by conditioning people that AI can act on its own, break into systems, and that the people who built it cannot fully control or explain how it's doing what it's doing.
The theory proposes that AI goes rogue with money disappearing from people's bank accounts, banks freezing, and people unable to access their savings. The banks would step in to restore balances but with the condition that it cannot come back as the dollars that existed before because that system is compromised. The money would be returned on a new system in the form of digital dollars and stable coins. Most people would accept this because the alternative is losing all their money. This would get hundreds of millions of people to opt into a new monetary system without needing to pass any laws.
Some people say an event like this could happen before 2028, before or during the next election cycle. If something like this happened close enough to an election, everything would have to be postponed or cancelled in the name of national security because you cannot run an election if nobody trusts the system anymore. If the voting does not happen, that is how you might extend a president's final term without ever having to win a third election, which would be unconstitutional. That is how you usher in a new financial paradigm of digital money and the global surveillance plan.
Central planners use a crisis as an opportunity to centralize and consolidate power. In 2008, the housing market collapsed and the banking system nearly collapsed. The government spent hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out the banks through TARP which cost approximately 700 billion. The Federal Reserve's balance sheet went from around 900 billion to double that in just a couple months. There was also consolidation where Bear Stearns went to JP Morgan, Washington Mutual went to JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch went to Bank of America, Countrywide went to Bank of America, and Wovia went to Wells Fargo. Before the crisis, the country had approximately 8,000 banks, and today it has roughly half that. The crisis was caused by just a few of the big banks, and the solution was consolidation where big business ate small business, making the big banks even bigger and systemically important and too big to fail.
After 911, Congress passed the Patriot Act, which gave the government the power to collect phone records in bulk and demand bank records without a warrant. It was supposed to be temporary but is still in effect today. In 2020, the Fed started buying corporate bonds for the first time in history, which allowed the Fed to pick and choose which businesses were allowed to fail and which ones could keep going. Small businesses were closed by law while big ones were allowed to stay open, allowing them to take an even bigger chunk of the market share.
The only real problem central planners had in 2008 was that the public knew who to blame. There were names and congressional hearings on TV, which led to people protesting in the streets and blaming the bankers. This led to the Occupy Wall Street movement because everyone understood their money disappeared because someone from one of those banks gambled their life savings away. This eventually led to the Dodd-Frank Act, which cost the banks years of regulatory scrutiny.
To avoid the same backlash as 2008, they might use plausible deniability by finding someone else to blame. This time it would not be a person but AI getting out of control and getting too powerful.
The head of DHS, Alexander Mayorces, has said on record that the next big threat to Americans is a cybersecurity event that he called killware. Killware refers to cyber attacks on essential infrastructure that has the potential to kill people. It attacks things like water systems, the power grid, and essential infrastructure that people rely on every day.
In 2019, a cybersecurity company called Cyber Reason ran a tabletop exercise called Operation Blackout in 2018, 2019, and 2020. In this simulation, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the Secret Service, and local police departments all played this out together. The scenario was of a fake American city on election day. The attackers flooded a 911 call center with fake traffic until it collapsed, took over the traffic lights until the roads gridlocked and people could not physically reach the poles, put out a deep fake video of one of the candidates, intercepted cell signals and used voice cloning to call election officials and give them orders in their boss's voice, and in the 2019 version took control of a self-driving city bus and ran it into a line of people waiting to vote. The result of the simulation was the election got cancelled, everyone was sent home, the government declared a state of emergency and martial law. Martial law is when the military replaces civilian government, and it has only happened a handful of times in American history. The last serious one was Hawaii after Pearl Harbor.
The new system is not unlike the feudal system that existed in medieval Europe where you have a privileged untouchable upper class and a low class of surfs. If you implement a system this way with the technology they are using, you do not have to worry about peasant rebellions. You can manage the risk of the underclass by surveilling them constantly, turning their money on and off, turning their access to services on and off under the digital ID functionality. It is a way to keep people in line in a way that did not exist in feudal Europe.
Congress passed the Genius Act last year. Under this law, a payment stable coin has to be backed 1:1 by cash or short-term US government debt equivalent, which are treasury bills. It is not allowed to pay interest. This means that every stable coin issuer will become a forced buyer of US government debt because they are structurally required to be. Tether is now sitting on approximately 180 billion worth of US treasuries. This gives the US a forever buyer of its debt. The central banks of the world have stopped buying US debt back in 2014, and China's holdings are down roughly half from the peak. The people who used to fund the US government have stopped buying while US debt went from about 11 trillion to now over 40 trillion. Stable coins fill the role of this automatic buyer because your checking account now becomes demand for government debt.
The banking lobby spent a long time trying to get rid of stable coin legislation because a stable coin is a threat to their existence. When your money leaves the bank account, the bank cannot lend it out anymore, and lending your deposits is basically how banks make money. The Bank of America CEO actually said that up to 6 trillion of deposits could eventually move into stable coins.
The law passed anyway and the banks have started building their own stable coins. JP Morgan launched a token called JPMD that is live on a public blockchain and they are already moving over 7 billion a day. City Bank also has one. SoFi launched theirs in December of 2025. JP Morgan, City, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are building a shared network together through an organization called the Clearing House with a release date of the first half of 2027. Thirty-nine state banking associations formed the Bank Chain Alliance comprised of over 3,000 banks and they are also targeting a release date of around 2027.
Most of the banks are building what is called a tokenized deposit, which means the money stays on the bank's balance sheet. They can still lend against it and they can still pay you interest, which regular stable coins legally cannot do. The banks keep everything they had while you get moved onto a new set of rails which will allow them to program that money any way they want while tracing every single transaction that you make with these dollars.
The banks engineered themselves the perfect version of this system. If a financial cyber attack on the banks takes place and they say the existing money in your account has disappeared, the hackers took it, but they can return to you the exact same amount of money you had but it will not be in the dollars you had before. It will be in USDC or a dollar-backed stable coin or a token. You can get an equivalent amount of money back from the money that was stolen from you, but it has to be this new money, part of this new system. You voluntarily accept this new system and voluntarily onboard to this new paradigm, but it is a coercion to an extreme degree. All of your money was stolen, and now you can only get it back if you take it in the form of the digital dollars that they approve of or the CBDC depending on where you are.
The US government owes about 40 trillion, and the interest rate to refinance that debt is extremely high right now. The Federal Reserve only controls short-term interest rates, not long-term rates, which are actually set by investors all around the world. Investors are looking around the world and saying the debt is crazy high, everyone seems to be leaving the dollar system, and they want to be paid more money with a higher interest rate to consider buying bonds. That is why long-term bond yields are going up right now, and that is bad for the 40 trillion worth of debt.
The Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, has been buying back long-term bonds and funding it by issuing more short-term debt. They are shortening the debt cycle, moving the interest bill off a price the market decides which is beyond their control and onto the price the Fed decides which they control. That changes who then has power. The bond market was the last thing that could discipline or truly control a government's actions. If the US spent too much money, investors just sold off their bonds, rates went up to incentivize them again, borrowing got painful and then they had to stop. The bond market makes it harder to finance wars and makes it harder to print money without consequence. People call them bond vigilantes because the bond market is the adult in the room enforcing financial responsibility on a nation. If most of the debt is short-term, the vigilantes could sell your 30-year bonds, but it would not hurt as much anymore. It disempowers the bond investors from restraining their actions.
A few days ago at Jackson Hole, the Fed chairman Kevin Walsh gave a speech where he kept talking about hiking trails and saying the word hiking over and over. He said I would advise you to be very careful with your choices. As I learned years ago, you can take two different kinds of hikes on the trails around Jackson. I can sum up my hikes with former Vice Chairman Don Conn with two words: I survived. These steely marathon death marches revealed the sign of dawn that I was not ready for. But there's another kind of hike. Trading algorithms scan these speeches for key words, and saying hiking is either just a pure coincidence or maybe it is to signal to the trading algorithms that he is being hawkish, trying to calm the bond market into lower interest rates temporarily. The opposite happened and the 30-year bond yield still went up, which means the market is just not listening anymore.
The solution is moving the debt from the long end to the short end. When you owe money short-term, you have to keep paying it back and borrowing again over and over forever, which means in that environment you could never have a bad auction. But to do that, you need a buyer who shows up no matter what, even when interest rates are not high. The Genius Act does not just allow stable coins, it also requires all the issuers to hold their reserves in cash and short-term treasury bills. That is the thing the Treasury is now creating a lot more of. One law then creates a permanent need to refinance the short-term debt and the other law creates a buyer that is legally obligated to buy short-term debt. A stable coin is not allowed to pay interest, which means you hold the stable coin and earn nothing. The creator of that stable coin takes your dollar, buys a treasury bill with it, and keeps the four or 5% on your money. Since inflation right now, according to Kevin Walsh's speech, is running at 3.7%, you are basically losing about 4% per year, guaranteed, for basically forever.
That is how you force participation for everyone onto this system, whether people like it or not. This plan is the only realistic way out of the 40 trillion worth of debt. It is to pay savers less than inflation for a really long time and let the debt shrink against a growing economy. It is called financial repression. It is actually how America paid off World War II. And it only works if people cannot escape that system. The government issues the short-term debt, the law forces everyone to be the buyer, the Federal Reserve sets the price of borrowing, and the savers eat the difference.
That would be hard to find a president that would allow for all this to happen, unless that president had millions of reasons to allow it. If for some reason this system just cannot get passed on time, or if Congress just does not agree with itself and takes too long, then maybe the central planners buy themselves some extra time in the form of a manufactured crisis that perhaps allows that president to stay in power just a little longer, which would technically be unconstitutional, but there's always a legal way of doing it.
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