The Citizens Electoral Council has just released a 100-page handbook titled “The Next Financial Crash Is Certain! End the BoE-BIS-APRA Bankers’ Dictatorship.
Major party politicians are putting the economic security of all Australians at serious risk by their misplaced confidence in the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the bank regulator.
The Big Lie of the Australian financial system is that it remained sound during the global financial crisis in 2008, due to the effective oversight of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).
When the government and financial authorities assure you your deposits are guaranteed, don’t believe them. They have proven time and again that in a financial crash they will put the survival of banks and their powerful owners first.
Are federal MPs willing to vote for a bill that could allow the deposits of their constituents—individuals, businesses, non-profits—to be confiscated to prop up a failing bank?
“A ticking time bomb!” That is what outgoing Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) boss Greg Medcraft last week called the bail-in bonds, a.k.a.
