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Thomas Jefferson once warned in a letter to John Taylor on May 28, 1816: โThe system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destructionโฆ And I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.โ
He saw banking as corrupt, sweeping away fortunes and morals, a threat bigger than any army because it could quietly destroy liberty from within.
We should have listened.
The irony today is painful. We went ahead and built the Federal Reserve in 1913. Everyone thinks itโs a pure government operation. Itโs not. This thing is part private, part public. The big banks own shares in the regional branches and get to help shape major decisions about our money supply.
Then the regular banks create most of the actual dollars in circulation every time they approve a loan. This fractional reserve system lets them generate money from nothing. When trouble hits, the Fed jumps in as the lender of last resort, protecting them with tools that often mean more printing or bailouts. The profits stay private but the risks get spread to all of us.
Look at government debt. Politicians borrow like crazy. The central bank buys much of that debt by creating new money. It fuels inflation that eats your savings and raises every price you payโjust like Jefferson feared with unchecked funding โswindling futurity on a large scale.โ
Jefferson feared exactly this: banking establishments gaining dangerous power, concentrating wealth, burdening future generations with debt, and eroding our freedoms.
This isnโt theory. Itโs your reality right now with expensive groceries, housing, and everything else. The power he called more dangerous than standing armies sits at the center of our system today.
One powerful fight back is Bitcoin self-custody. You hold your own private keys, no bank, no government can freeze your funds, seize them, or inflate them away. Itโs true ownership: youโre your own bank, protected from the overreach Jefferson warned about. In a world of endless money printing and centralized control, self-custody Bitcoin gives you real sovereignty over your wealth.
We have to wake up fast. Start asking who really controls our money and why it keeps working better for Wall Street than for working families. Embrace tools like self-custody to reclaim power. The longer we ignore it, the harder it will be to fix.
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