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.
The death-knell of neoliberalism in Australia is sounding louder, with a landmark policy recommendation inserted in the end of a Parliamentary report handed down mid-March.
The prospect of a Hazelwood Power Station closure within months is unacceptable and the Victorian government must step in to take it over to ensure national energy security.
Now that Australia’s banks have had a number of years to heavily sell hybrid securities to retail investors, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has confirmed that such securities will be the first bank liabilities written off—“b
The leading institutions of the bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system issued a report on 16 August, warning that there are no mechanisms in place at this time that can prevent a blow-out of the $600 trillion-plus global financial derivatives bu
