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.
“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.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has today introduced into Parliament the bill to give emergency powers to APRA, the regulator that has allowed the banks to abuse their power and positions.
Australia’s formerly government owned bank, the Commonwealth Bank, is now a rapacious financial predator that has gouged and ruined thousands of customers and knowingly laundered money for drug syndicates and terrorists in the pursuit of mega-prof
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
