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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Tuesday, September 29th, 2026
Dateline: Peterborough, NH
Four Independent AI Systems Confirm: Fractional Reserve Banking + Government Taxes + SS COLA Gap = 58% of Lifetime Earnings Extracted
PETERBOROUGH, NH — The Art of Liberty Foundation today releases its new book, The Greatest Theft in Human History – How the Banks and “Government” Will Steal at Least $1.40 MILLION from the Typical Worker… “Legally” by founder and executive director Etienne de la Boetie2 (now available in paperback and ePub at Greatest-Theft.com), 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 calculations from four separate AI systems, and quantified in specific dollar figures for workers at every income level. Beginning with this release, the book is available free with an annual membership to Voluntaryist.News, the Foundation’s new censorship-resistant publishing platform.
▶ $594,669 (official 2% CPI) — rising ~13% to ~$673,000 once the Reality Index’s measured ~0.7-point CPI-understatement gap is applied: The amount the median American worker ($60K/yr) loses over a 40-year career to the fractional reserve banking system alone in inflation tax + Cantillon Effect + Compound Trap — confirmed independently by Claude Fable 5 Max (Anthropic), SuperGrok (xAI), Gemini 3.1 Pro Extended (Google), and GPT-5.5 High (OpenAI).
▶ $1.40 Million (58% of lifetime earnings): The median worker’s total extraction — banking mechanisms (~$595K), federal, state and payroll taxes (~$785K), and the Social Security COLA gap (~$16K using the BLS’s CPI-E, ~$70K using the Reality Index) — equal to 58% of $2.40M in lifetime earnings, on the conservative official-CPI baseline.
▶ ~$25–50 Billion Per Year: The amount the federal government saves annually by using manipulated BLS inflation figures to suppress Social Security and pension COLAs — a four-model AI consensus finding.
▶ ~18–25% from inflation alone — at every income level: Inflation from fractional reserve banking and government dollar creation extracts roughly a quarter of lifetime earnings across the entire income spectrum, from $35K to $10M per year — the banks take about the same share from everyone.
Adding confiscatory federal and state taxes and the Social Security COLA gap brings the median worker’s total to about 58% of lifetime earnings.
▶ ~96–97% Purchasing Power Destroyed: The dollar has lost ~96–97% of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 — confirmed by the BLS's own CPI Calculator.
▶ 860×: The expansion of the M2 money supply since 1913, versus only ~41× real GDP growth (money per unit of real output). The ~21× differential represents pure monetary dilution transferred from wage earners to money creators.
"The system claims a majority of every American worker’s lifetime earnings, then continues extracting through manipulated retirement benefits. These are not independent mechanisms — they are interlocking components of a single extraction architecture designed to transfer wealth from those who earn it to the banks who create the medium of exchange and, largely, fund/install the politicians who “legalize” it and the media monopolizers, academics and economists who have been covering it up." — Etienne de la Boetie², Founder, Art of Liberty Foundation
The report documents three interlocking mechanisms through which the banking system transfers purchasing power from workers:
The Inflation Tax: Every dollar created out of thin air by fractional reserve banking and the government dilutes the purchasing power of every existing dollar — a hidden theft/tax requiring no vote and no legislation.
The Cantillon Effect: Banks and their borrowers receive newly created money first, at pre-inflation prices. Workers receive wages last, at post-inflation prices. The approximately 450,000 single-family homes purchased by private equity since 2012 using QE money — while median workers were locked out of the market — is the Cantillon Effect made visible.
The Compound Trap: Inflation forces workers to borrow at interest — from the very institutions that created the inflation — to afford assets whose prices were inflated by the money-creation process. A home that cost $25,000 in 1971 now costs $400,000+. Not because the home is 16× better, but because the money supply expanded 860× while real GDP grew only ~41×.
The report's findings were independently calculated by four AI systems — Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 Max, xAI's SuperGrok, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Extended Thinking, and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 High — each prompted identically and without coordination. All four models converged on the same order of magnitude for median worker losses (approximately $595,000 under the conservative official-CPI baseline) and on the ~$25–50 billion annual government savings from CPI manipulation. The convergence of independently calculated estimates from models with different corporate owners and different training data itself is a central finding of the report.
All figures are sourced from primary data: FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, Federal Reserve H.6 money supply releases, BLS CPI Calculator, GAO audit reports, SEC filings, and peer-reviewed academic literature. At $1.40M per worker × 130 million Americans currently in the workforce, the total expected lifetime extraction across the current labor force exceeds $182 trillion — consistent with the Foundation's 10 Largest Thefts in Human History analysis. The report distinguishes between Tier A confirmed figures (audited hard data), Tier B calculated figures (derived from confirmed inputs), and Tier C modeled estimates (clearly labeled as such).
A NOTE ON THE FIGURES: Earlier previews of this analysis circulated a higher, less conservative estimate. For the published report, the Foundation deliberately adopted the most conservative defensible methodology — correcting an overstated Social Security COLA component, removing the total extraction versus the benign deflation of a hard-money gold standard and tightening the banking-extraction model. The published $1.40M (58%) figure is the conservative official-CPI floor, chosen to withstand hostile academic and media scrutiny rather than to maximize the headline.
The Greatest Theft in Human History is available now in paperback (ISBN 979-8-90119-337-2) and ePub (ISBN 979-8-90119-339-6) at Greatest-Theft.com.
Free with a Liberty Membership: a copy of The Greatest Theft in Human History ships free with every annual membership ($50) to Voluntaryist.News — the Art of Liberty Foundation’s new censorship-resistant publishing platform, built to move its journalism beyond the reach of Big Tech deplatforming, demonetization, and shadow-banning. Members receive the book plus full access to the Foundation’s reporting on publishing infrastructure it owns and controls.
Bulk orders account for more than 10% of the foundation book sales. One early example before the official release of the book — a single customer’s order of 200 copies — is being distributed to a range of recipients, including 39 sheriffs’ departments in North Carolina and two justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The Greatest Theft in Human History was so well received that the customer ordered 200 more copies.
The Art of Liberty Foundation is dedicated to exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of monopoly government and central banking and promoting voluntaryism — the only system of social organization based entirely on consent — as the alternative that would maximize both prosperity and harmony in society. The Foundation publishes books, investigative reports, the Art of Liberty Daily News, and Five Meme Friday. More information at ArtOfLiberty.org. Download the full report with links at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation.
Julie Marie
PR Manager, Art of Liberty Foundation
Email: Me***@**********ty.org
Website: ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation
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NOTE TO EDITORS: High-resolution charts, the full report PDF, and AI methodology documentation are available at ArtOfLiberty.org/Inflation
