The Citizens Electoral Council is calling on all concerned Australians to demand their elected MPs oppose the new draft bill giving the unaccountable bank regulator APRA dictatorial “crisis management” powers.
Anyone still not convinced Australia’s property bubble is close to bursting should take note of a trifecta of recent warnings: forecasts of a major contraction in construction by industry insiders, a major reversal in international capital flows t
In the wake of the collapse of European banks including Spain’s Banco Popular, two regional Italian banks, and the bail-in/bailout of the world’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Europe has been debating new powers to allow bank accounts to
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
