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The Greatest Theft In Human History
March 24, 2026 | by State of the Nation
Understanding the (Mostly) Invisible Theft: Inflation from Fractional Reserve Banking + Government Taxes+ Social Security COLA Underpayment
By Etienne de la Boetie2 Founder, Art of Liberty Foundation
*With research assistance from Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's GPT
This report presents the most comprehensive public accounting ever attempted of how the fractional reserve banking system and "government" systematically extract wealth from ordinary American workers—documented with primary-source evidence, independent AI calculations from four separate models, and quantified in specific dollar figures for workers at every income level.