If I'm reading this correctly, the Fed and its member banks had $49 billion of net income through the first nine months of 2018, before remittances to the U.S. Treasury.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/2018-september-fe...

Very nice showing. If you annualize the Fed's nine-month rate, it's probably slightly ahead of Apple's money-making rate, which is the best in the U.S. corporate sector. (Apple reported $59 billion in net income for the full year ended Sept. 29, 2018.)

Even so, the Fed can't quite crank out profits at an Aramco tempo.

The Fed is effectively pulling money out of thin air, and profit sharing with it's largest partners - big banks, something which Saudi Aramco is both unable and unwilling to accomplish.

98% of Fed profits go directly to the Federal Government treasury, not big banks.