Surplus and interest rates

in geopolitics •  7 years ago 

Figures have just been published in Germany that the country had a surplus of euro 38 billion in 2017. Wonderful, isn't it? Well, maybe not. Other figures show that because of extremely low interest rates, German savers were cheated out of euro 50 billion in the same year. Isn't that a new kind of tax?

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Thx. Hopefully people will wake up

That is where the surplus is coming from? Hopefully not for long. The people are awakening.

Thx Rosalinde!

I'm afraid Germany isn't the only country in the world being hit with a hidden tax or hidden taxes as a result of monetary policy.