THE SITUATION ROOM · SCHOOLROOM
The Vienna School
A sixteen-module curriculum on Austrian economics: the analytical lens that makes everything else in this room make sense.
Most readers arriving here are Bitcoin-curious but unfamiliar with the 150-year tradition that explains why sound money matters in the first place. Work through the modules in order (15 to 25 minutes each) and the rest of the Situation Room will read differently. Every chart will have a frame around it. Every policy headline will have a translation.
The curriculum
16 MODULES
Sixteen modules, read in order. The method and the foundations first, then the machine as it actually runs, then the rival schools on their own strongest terms, and finally what all of it was building toward.
FOUNDATIONS · 01–06
The Machine Room
MODULES 07–12 · BANKING MECHANICS
Know the machine before you condemn it. How money is actually created and moved: commercial vs central bank money, why loans make deposits, how rates really move, what QE swaps, and where the system broke.
Rival Schools
MODULES 13–15 · STEELMAN THEN DISSECT
Each rival stated in its strongest form first (better than most of its own advocates put it), then taken apart joint by joint. You cannot honestly reject a school you never understood.
The capstone
MODULE 16 · WHERE IT ALL LANDS
Everything before this module was the argument. This is the conclusion it had been waiting a century and a half to reach.
