We want to take the time to listen to you so that we understand your perspectives in order to inform our consumer protection work. Consumer protection is at the heart of everything the Central Bank does. Our guiding principle, from our founding legislation, is that our "constant and predominant aim shall be the welfare of the people as a whole."
And it has assets, including for instance its stakes in publicly owned companies and holdings of public capital more broadly. But these two items are comparatively small. Much more important are implicit fiscal assets and liabilities. Implicit fiscal assets are the discounted value of all future tax revenues. Implicit fiscal liabilities are the discounted value of all future primary expenditure.