Talk:Deutsche Bundesbank/Archives/2015

Profits

I believe it would be worthwhile mentioning that while the Deutsche Bundesbank acts independently of the govenment, the profit of the Deutsche Bundesbank is given to the treasury. This fact is also mentioned in the German version of the article. If you compare this to the Federal Resrve System which issues shares (to private banks which it afterwards calls "member banks") which pay 6% dividend (http://federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/faq/faqfrs.htm) that makes a huge difference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.187.104.252 (talk) 04:53, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

The difference is "huge" only at first sight. If you look up the actual distribution of Fed profits, you will see that by far the lion's share goes to the US Treasury: In 2014, the total net income of the Fed system was 101.5 billion dollars, and distributions to the Treasury were 98.7 billion dollars, i.e., more than 97 % of that. Only 1.7 billion dollars (not even 2 %) of the net income was distributed to shareholding banks as dividends. Source. SchnitteUK (talk) 10:23, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

Why?

I wonder why there is no mentioned here Dr. Hermann Josef Abs, once a notorious member of the NSDAP and a close friend to Mr. Martin Bormann. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.110.112.71 (talk) 23:11, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Abs was never an official of the Bundesbank. I think you've made the common mistake of mixing up Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Bank. SchnitteUK (talk) 10:16, 15 December 2015 (UTC)