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My knowledge of the banking and financial system is limited, but from what I can see the article contains several factual errors that it exploits to make the po
by tjansen 16y ago
My knowledge of the banking and financial system is limited, but from what I can see the article contains several factual errors that it exploits to make the point that private banks are evil.
Example: the author claims that the ECB (european central bank) is co-owned by Deutsche Bank, which is directed by a private council. This is simply wrong. While Deutsche Bank is a private bank, ECB is co-owned by the "Deutsche Bundesbank" which is a state-owned and controlled organisation (even if the bank is intentionally only loosely controlled by the state, which is a common for several organisations in germany).
Another example: he claims that private banks can 'create' money. That's not true. The federal/central banks do, and they give that money to the private banks, which have to pay interest for that money.