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The Real Coup in America is Happening Quietly
Why the Fight Over the Fed is More Dangerous than Most People Think
Gideon Ashwood
September 02, 2025
The Real Coup in America is Happening Quietly
Why the Fight Over the Fed is More Dangerous than Most People Think
On August 29, 2025, something happened that should have dominated every headline in America.
Inside a Washington, D.C. courtroom, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook fought to keep her job. The White House had just tried to fire her.
The reason? According to her legal team, she refused to support aggressive interest rate cuts being pushed by the administration.
No sitting president has ever fired a Fed governor over policy disagreements. But that line has now been crossed.
This wasn't just about one person. It was a warning. The U.S. central bank is being pulled into the political machine. And if that continues, it could have devastating consequences for the economy, the dollar, and your financial future.
How the Debt Trap Sets the Stage
The United States government is drowning in debt. It now owes more than 120 percent of its GDP. That is a higher level than after World War II.
But here’s the difference. Back then, the war was over. Today, the spending spree is still going.
Trillion-dollar deficits are becoming routine. The Treasury is flooding the market with short-term debt and refinancing at much higher interest rates.
Over the next 12 months, more than $9 trillion in U.S. debt will mature. It will have to be rolled over at significantly higher rates than when it was first issued.
That refinancing is pushing annual interest costs toward 20 percent of the entire federal budget.
This is what economists call a debt trap. The government borrows more to pay off old debt, which increases interest payments, which leads to more borrowing. It feeds on itself.
The only way to keep the game going is for the Federal Reserve to keep rates low. But doing that creates another risk: inflation.
That’s the choice Washington is staring at. Either live with higher interest costs and risk a budget crisis, or suppress interest rates and risk damaging the dollar.
And once the Fed loses control of either, the problem becomes much harder to fix.
They’re calling it the ‘Freedom Dividend’
Tech titans like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Mark Zuckerberg are calling for Universal Basic Income as AI threatens to eliminate millions of jobs.
But there’s a critical question few are asking: Who will pay for it?
Instead of relying on taxpayer funding, Mode Mobile is using attention as currency, already paying out $325M to over 50M users. Deloitte crowned them North America’s fastest-growing software company in 2023 after their revenue soared 32,481%.
And investors have a window to get in early before this becomes the template for post-AI income redistribution.
They’ve secured their Nasdaq ticker $MODE, and their $0.30/share pre-IPO offering may not be open much longer. The offering could close any moment now.
Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 24 months. An intent to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur.
The Deloitte rankings are based on submitted applications and public company database research, with winners selected based on their fiscal-year revenue growth percentage over a three-year period.
Please read the offering circular and related risks at invest.modemobile.com.
Why This Puts the Fed in the Crosshairs
For decades, the Fed has been able to act independently. That independence is the reason investors around the world trust the dollar and buy U.S. government bonds.
But the pressure to change that is building fast.
The President has called for a 3-percentage point rate cut. He says this would save the government about $1 trillion per year in interest payments.
He also made it clear that once he controls the Fed’s board, those rate cuts will come. Let’s be blunt. That is not monetary policy. That is fiscal manipulation.
Economists call this “fiscal dominance.” It means debt concerns start to dictate what the central bank does. The Fed becomes a servant to the Treasury.
Once that happens, inflation doesn’t just become a risk. It becomes the plan.
Why This Isn’t Just a Political Fight