We all have grown up playing board games, exchanging and counting paper money with our hands. Cash bridges generations. When we at the Deutsche Bundesbank open our doors to the general public as part of our efforts to inform people about the tasks we perform within the Eurosystem, the display of actual cash and gold at our stalls attracts visitors both young and old.
We have been trying to bridge the gap between growing expenditures amid falling revenues mostly through borrowings (both internally and externally). Since the year FY06, we have not witnessed any substantial primary surplus in our budget. The current revenues have not been enough to account for current expenditures of the government.