Your views were always based on competent analysis and sound arguments. As a central banker, you were highly respected around the world – on both a professional and a personal level. And your standing within the Bundesbank itself is at least equally high. You pressed ahead with internal change like virtually no president before you.
Where an entity which has a vested interest is releasing data, upon which they then base claims for advancing their own opinions or agenda, we should take care. Some private surveys one occasionally sees could only be described as crude advertising or  BIS Review 24/2005  5  propaganda.