The timing could not be more relevant: the CLARITY Act is reportedly on a knife’s edge in the Senate, with the bill’s fate before the August recess still genuinely uncertain as of this writing, exactly the kind of live, unresolved story that benefits from a guest who has done the reading. Christian’s paper (dated July 31, 2026) is a deliberately nonpartisan, 50-plus-page analysis that separates what the legislation actually does from what critics and supporters merely claim it does.

His central argument: the CLARITY Act does not create a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency and, in fact, makes a direct Federal Reserve retail CBDC harder to implement. But Christian argues it may still build the legal and technological architecture for what he calls a “Private CBDC Paradox” a financial system that stays formally private while gradually acquiring many of the identity-linked, traceable, and programmable characteristics people fear from a government-run digital dollar. It’s a rare piece of crypto-policy commentary that steelmans both sides before reaching its own conclusion.

Christian is also a recurring voice on institutional power and digital infrastructure more broadly, his most recent “On the Record” episode digs into Palantir’s role at the center of America’s intelligence and data apparatus, a natural companion conversation to the surveillance-and-control questions raised in the white paper.

Suggested Topics & Angles

• Is the CLARITY Act a crypto bill, a market-structure bill, or a monetary-policy bill? Why the label matters
• The “Private CBDC Paradox”: how digital money could become CBDC-like without a formal CBDC
• What happens to the bill — and to crypto markets — if the Senate misses its pre-recess window
• Stablecoins, Treasury demand, and the future of dollar dominance
• Financial surveillance, fund-freezing, and due process in an all-digital payments system
• Deposit flight: what a stablecoin boom could mean for community banks
• Palantir, government data infrastructure, and the broader architecture of institutional surveillance

Featured Asset

• “The CLARITY Act and the Architecture of Digital Money” — Policy White Paper, 2nd Edition, prepared by Christian Briggs (July 31, 2026). Available to share with your producers/writers ahead of a segment.
• “On the Record with Christian Briggs” — recent episode on Palantir and the U.S. intelligence-data apparatus (YouTube)

Christian is available for phone, in-studio, or remote video interviews and can turn around bookings on short notice given the live legislative news cycle.

Thank you for considering him, given the Senate timeline, I’d love to lock in a date this week if possible.

Guest Avail Christian Briggs

CEO, Hard Asset Management Group, Inc
Host, Hard Asset Money Show