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 prop up failing banks, Cyprus-style.
Joe Hockey’s denials about “bail-in” have again been officially contradicted, this time by his own Treasury department, in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI).
Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood yesterday lodged a formal submission to Joe Hockey’s Financial System Inquiry, which opened with the following statement:
If your federal MP has assured you that the CEC is wrong, and that there is no “bail-in” law—to prop up failing banks with seized deposits, Cyprus-style—planned for Australia, read the report in The Australianby Michael Bennet today: “S&P warns of ‘bail-in’ dangers for lenders”