Sensational information has surfaced that an Australian Treasury delegation travelled to Europe in February for discreet meetings with European countries on how they handled their banking crises.
Adams is forecasting that Australia’s huge debt bubble, built up by extreme property prices, is leading to “economic Armageddon”. Joye is the banking establishment’s darling, a former Goldman Sachs banker, Reserve Bank economist, and contributing editor to the banks’ self-promotional rag the Australian Financial Review, who was wheeled out to assure the viewers that everything is fine.
This release is taken from the editorial of the 6 March 2019 issue of the CEC’s Australian Alert Service magazine.
“What was that?” Great disasters start with that question. It’s being asked now about Suncorp’s unexpected 5 March announcement that repayments are in doubt on a $120 million mortgage bond.
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 Senate Economics Legislation Committee inquiry into the Banking System Reform (Separation of Banks) Bill 2019 must be a thorough investigation of structural separation.