The Australian government and major-party politicians have one response to concerns that bank deposits could be “bailed in”: don’t worry, you’re protected by the $250,000 Financial Claims Scheme (FCS) deposit guarantee.
Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brisbane this weekend, the banker in charge of the bail-in agenda has announced the finalised plan to prop up Too Big To Fail (TBTF) banks, for agreement at the summit.
The interim report of David Murray’s Financial System Inquiry, released 15 July, pushes the case for supposedly solving the problem of too-big-to-fail (TBTF) by implementing “bail-in”—the system which includes confiscating customer deposits to pro
