Translating Macro-Policy into Human Stakes

Translating Macro-Policy into Human Stakes

Political campaigns, labor organizations, and universities struggle to make macroeconomic policy resonate.I connect abstract economic frameworks—like the NAIRU model and FDR’s Second Bill of Rights—to the front-line realities of the working class.With a quarter-century of experience running high-volume production operations, I don't just map the extraction;I provide the messaging frameworks and structural solutions to build a new architecture of care.

"Mr Brice approached the topic with the cold, procedural eye of a forensic accountant...but still made it entertaining."

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Political Messaging & Campaign Strategy

  • The 1944 Playbook: Reclaiming the Working Class through the Second Bill of RightsColumn

    Voters are furious because their economic precarity is engineered, yet modern campaigns keep offering them minor technocratic tweaks. Standard political messaging fails because it treats the economy like the weather, rather than a series of deliberate choices. Using FDR’s 1944 Second Bill of Rights as the baseline, I provide campaigns with a structural messaging architecture. I show candidates how to stop talking about abstract percentages, start explaining exactly how systems extract from their constituents' kitchens, and campaign on a tangible blueprint to rebuild the architecture of care.

  • Municipal Resistance: Building the Local Architecture of Care

    While federal macroeconomic policies (like NAIRU) engineer precarity from the top down, the fallout always lands on the municipal level—in local food banks, housing crises, and collapsing community supply chains. I provide local candidates and city planners with a framework to stop waiting for federal rescue and start building lateral, community-level logistical bypasses. Using 25 years of high-volume logistics experience, I map how city governance and local food systems can actually be designed to serve as a structural shield against macro-level extraction.

  • The Inflation Cartel: Translating the Supply Chain into Voter Stakes

    Standard political messaging on inflation is a trap; it accepts the corporate premise that prices are rising due to invisible market forces or the weather. Using the mechanics of the food-industrial complex and the "profitable non-competitiveness" of American cartels, I show campaigns how to structurally reframe the "cost of living" debate. I give candidates the exact vocabulary to explain to voters how monopolies protect incumbents and shift risk downward, turning abstract inflation into a tangible, engineered villain.

Institutional Strategy & Leadership

  • The Macro Lever: NAIRU and Engineered Precarity

    Standard political messaging treats unemployment like the weather—an unfortunate, uncontrollable force. Your premise starts by exposing the truth: a baseline of precarity is intentionally engineered into the system.

    The Federal Reserve operates on a model called NAIRU (the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment). The theory dictates that if unemployment drops too low, workers gain leverage, demand higher wages, and cause inflation. To prevent this, the central bank actively raises interest rates to "cool the economy"—which is sanitized, technocratic shorthand for "intentionally putting people out of work to protect capital."

  • Reclaiming the Working Class through the Second Bill of Rights

    Modern political messaging fails because it treats the economy like the weather—an uncontrollable force we just have to survive. Voters are furious because their economic precarity is engineered, yet campaigns keep offering them minor technocratic tweaks. In 1944, FDR proposed a structural alternative: an Economic Bill of Rights designed to guarantee domestic and individual dignity against extractive systems. Eight solutions, without which, he feared, would foretell the inevitable onslaught of American fascism.

  • The Systemic Expansion

    Modern political messaging fails because it treats the economy like the weather—an uncontrollable force we simply have to survive. It asks voters to endure a storm that was actually built in a boardroom. Voters are furious because their economic precarity is engineered, the deliberate result of policies that protect monopolies and shift risk downward onto the working class. Yet, in the face of this systemic extraction, campaigns keep offering them minor technocratic tweaks and percentage points. In 1944, FDR proposed a structural alternative: an Economic Bill of Rights designed to guarantee domestic and individual dignity against these exact extractive forces. He offered eight foundational solutions to rebuild the architecture of care—without which, he explicitly warned, the resulting economic despair would foretell the inevitable onslaught of American fascism.

  • The Acceptable Casualties of Efficiency

    Modern corporate "efficiency" is often just the systemic stripping away of safety margins. Using real-world case studies—from high-volume commercial kitchen logistics to the collapse of local supply chains, this talk maps exactly how systems shift risk downward. I provide operational leaders with a framework to rebuild structural resilience before the system breaks.

  • The Cartel Playbook: What Baseball Teaches Us About Stagnation

    Using baseball's antitrust exemption as a forensic case study, this keynote explores the mechanics of "profitable non-competitiveness". I map out how closed monopolies, protected status, and extractive institutions ultimately destroy their own core product by alienating their base.

  • Mutual Aid and the Radical Logistics of the Kitchen

    We cannot rely on the food-industrial complex to solve the crises it engineered. Drawing from the history of mutual aid and the tactical logistics of the commercial kitchen, I map how the simple, physical act of feeding a community operates as a direct structural bypass to economic extraction. This isn't about recipes; it's about domestic dignity as a form of resistance.
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