The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is demanding that Australia move beyond the back door “bail-in” scheme passed last year, and enact a full, statutory bail-in regime that explicitly includes seizing deposits to prop up failing banks.
The farce of bail-in is playing out in Australia right now, with the banks complaining to the regulator that they can no longer find suckers to buy the bail-in bonds that are supposed to be their buffer against a crash.
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
