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Frankfurt A look at the Bundesbank’s statistics shows that the Germans are not exactly poor, at least as far as the total account balances are concerned. Because about 1.4 trillion euros are on current accounts and similar money collection points. But this enormous sum is threatened – the money bears no interest.
The numbers make the dimension of the loss clear. With an inflation rate of a good eight percent, the owners of the 1.4 trillion euros lose a total of 112 billion euros a year. Or to put it another way: If all of the approximately 84 million inhabitants of the country had a share of the trillion sum, every German would be poorer by 1333 euros a year.
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