The New Money Order

The Business Leader’s Guide to Programmable Money, AI Agents, and the Financial System That Replaces Everything You KnowAaron J. Rafferty

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Money is becoming software. In The New Money Order, Aaron J. Rafferty maps the collision of programmable money and artificial intelligence, showing business leaders how this convergence is reshaping every industry that moves value. Rafferty built the systems he writes about—a media company with over a million subscribers, an AI venture studio, and a cause coin that has funded nearly 10,000 meals through trading activity, not donations. Drawing on Dalio's geopolitical cycles and Perez's framework for technological revolutions, he shows why the post-1945 monetary order is ending just as programmable infrastructure arrives to replace it. Across 15 chapters and 60+ original figures, the book delivers practical tools—a 30-second diagnostic, an energy theory of value, and an enterprise playbook—for operators ready to act on Monday morning.

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GenreBusiness and Economics

Length9 hrs 35 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMar 26, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1INTRODUCTION: The $100 Bill That Learned to Think

10CHAPTER 9: Tokens: The Atomic Unit of the New Economy

2CHAPTER 1: The Architecture of Trust.

11CHAPTER 10: AI Agents: When Machines Join the Economy

3CHAPTER 2: The Breaking Point

12CHAPTER 11: Cause Coins: Money with a Mission

4CHAPTER 3: The Energy Theory of Value

13CHAPTER 12: Prediction Markets and the Attention Economy: Sentiment Becomes Software

5CHAPTER 4: Installation to Deployment: The Pattern That Repeats

14CHAPTER 13: The New Money Order

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6CHAPTER 5: The Programmable Layer

15CHAPTER 14: Risks, Failure Modes, and the Dark Scenarios

7CHAPTER 6: Stablecoins and CBDCs: Bridging Old Energy and New

16CHAPTER 15: Seeing the New Money Order

8CHAPTER 7: DeFi: The First Working Prototype

17EPILOGUE: The Meal That Funded Itself

9CHAPTER 8: The Institutional Stampede

About the author

Aaron J. Rafferty

Aaron J. Rafferty is a behavioral scientist turned serial technology entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Standard, an AI venture studio; co-founder of The Tech Buzz, one of the fastest-growing independent tech media platforms in the U.S. with over 1.1 million subscribers; and founding director of WYDE, the world's first Impact Exchange — a nonprofit crypto exchange that converts trading fees into funding for verified charities. A former NIH-funded researcher, his peer-reviewed work on AI-driven health interventions was published in JMIR. The New Money Order is his first book.View all by Aaron J. Rafferty