Private programs · RIAs, wealth managers & advisory teams
Your clients are asking about the debt. I'll come teach your team the real answer.
A first-principles macro curriculum, delivered on-site at your firm — a keynote, a workshop day, or a two-day intensive, shaped around your book of business.
Just one or two people?
For Individuals- Where
- Your office
- Length
- 90 min – 4 days
- Group size
- 4 – 200 people
- Lead time
- Three weeks
Why firms bring me in
Every advisor on your team fields the same three questions — and most answer them with a model that has been wrong for seventy years.
“Is the national debt going to blow up?”
Your team leaves able to explain what actually constrains a currency issuer — and why the number on the debt clock is not the risk clients think it is.
“Is the Fed losing control of the long-end of the curve?”
The yield curve, Fed tooling, QE and QT built from the plumbing up — so allocation conversations rest on mechanics rather than headlines.
“Is inflation coming back?”
How firms actually set prices, what genuinely causes inflation, and how it's measured — the difference between a defensible view and a guess.
The result is a team that speaks about the macro environment with one shared, coherent framework — in review meetings, in prospect pitches, and in the quarterly letter.
No economics background is assumed. Everything is built from balance sheets and first principles, with your firm's own portfolios and client questions as the working examples.
What you'll learn
Six branches, built in the right order.
Each branch is a self-contained module. We start with what money actually is and end with inflation — every idea resting on the one before it.
What Is Money?
- History of Money
- Money Creators
- Forms of Money
- Scale of Money
- What Backs the Dollar?
Aggregate Demand
- What Is “The Economy”?
- Consumer Demand
- Government Spending
- Commercial Bank Lending
Sovereign Debt
- Monetary Sovereignty
- Time Value of Money
- The Yield Curve
- Deficits & Debt Sustainability
- Bond Vigilantes
Central Banking
- The Dual Mandate
- Central Bank Tools
- QE & QT
- Yield Curve Control
The Problem with Traditional Macro
- Unobservable Variables
- Misunderstood Productivity
- Academia vs. Practitioners
Inflation
- How Do Firms Set Prices?
- Causes of Inflation
- Measurement of Inflation
- “Muscle Theory” of Economics
- Hyperinflation
Formats
Four ways to run it.
Six possible branches of curriculum, adjusted to fit your needs. I travel to you; continental U.S. travel is included in the fee.
90 minutes
The Keynote
One argument, delivered end to end: why monetary sovereignty reframes debt, growth, and crisis. Ideal for a partner meeting, an all-hands, or a client event.
$15,000
Up to 200 attendees
Half day
The Workshop
Three branches, chosen with you — typically money creation, sovereign debt, and inflation — taught interactively with your team's live client questions worked through in the room.
$30,000
Up to 40 · workbooks included
Two days
The Intensive
All six branches in the right order — the full retreat curriculum compressed into two working days at your office, with a closing session on how it changes what your firm says and does.
$60,000
Up to 25 · workbooks included
Three – four days
The Private Retreat
Your firm takes a full cohort — the Miami format at The Plymouth on your own dates, or at a destination of your choosing. Sessions in the morning, the afternoons yours.
Quoted
12 – 20 · venue at cost
Fees cover preparation, delivery, materials, and continental U.S. travel. International engagements are quoted with travel at cost. Multi-office and multi-date programs are discounted.
A second use for it
Host it for your clients, not just your team.
The keynote can just as easily be run as a client and prospect event — a CFA charterholder from outside the firm explaining the monetary system, with no product to sell. It gives your advisors a reason to invite the households they've been trying to reach for a year.
- Invitation copy and a one-page description you can send under your own brand.
- A moderated Q&A your advisors introduce, so the relationship stays theirs.
- Compliance-friendly by construction: education, no products, no recommendations.
How it works
Three weeks from call to classroom.
Step one
Scoping call
Thirty minutes on your team, your clients, and which questions keep coming back.
Step two
Proposal
Format, date, agenda, and fee in writing within three business days.
Step three
Tailoring
A short intake from attendees, then I rebuild the examples around your book and mandates.
Step four
On-site
I fly in the evening before. You provide a room and a screen; I bring everything else.
What you get
- Live instruction tailored to your firm's client base and mandates.
- A printed reference workbook for every attendee, plus the slide set afterward.
- A short client-facing explainer your advisors can hand to households.
- A follow-up Q&A call for the team, thirty days out.
What you provide
- A room that seats everyone comfortably, with a screen or large display.
- Protected calendar time — half days work far better than lunch hours.
- Ten minutes from each attendee on the intake questionnaire.
- Compliance review of any client-facing invitation, on your letterhead.
Questions
Practical matters.
Where will you travel?
Anywhere in the continental U.S., with travel included in the fee. Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, and international engagements are quoted with travel at cost. If your team is split across offices, we can run the same program twice on consecutive days at a reduced second-day fee. Three weeks' notice is usually enough to get a date on the calendar.
Will you say anything my compliance team will hate?
No. This is education on how the monetary system works — no products, no recommendations, no performance claims. Slides go to your compliance team ahead of any client-facing session, and I'll work within your review process.
Can you run it remotely?
The keynote works well over video. The workshop and intensive don't — the value is in the argument being pressure-tested in the room. For distributed teams I'd rather fly to one office and gather everyone there.
Can you train just a small portion of our team?
Yes. Firms can send one or two people to Miami for the Mechanical Macro retreat for individuals. Each cohort holds twelve total seats. See retreat pricing, then bring me in for the wider team once you've seen the material.
Request a proposal
Tell me about your team.
A few details and I'll come back within three business days with a format, a date, and a fee. Nothing is charged until the proposal is signed.
Book a call insteadAustin Muñoz, CFAaustin.munoz@mechanicalmacro.com