Author: Martin North

Martin North is the Principal of Digital Finance Analytics

How Far Will The Contempt Go?

This is an edited and updated version of a show originally posted on “In The Interests Of The People”, with Economist John Adams and I discussing the current ASIC inquiry being run in the Senate.

There were some answers provided last week to questions on notice about ASIC’s conduct in terms of trying to lobby to stop the inquiry.

But in late breaking news, and not covered in the earlier show, further questions and answers were posted late last Friday evening (putting the trash out?) demonstrating just how unwilling the Corporate Regulator is in terms of disclosure. Is this contempt?

The earlier IOTP show, where we also discuss how Crypto plays into this, is available here. https://youtu.be/JPoOyV3Mvis

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The Cruel Trick: An Essay In Corporate Power And Corruption!

How is it that commercial interests can gain control of an important Government inquiry? This is the excellent question posed by Dale Webster at The Regional. The Regional Banking Taskforce was, she says, stacked by bankers, and its outcomes were pretty much biased from day one.

The current Government are also culpable.

We need a proper inquiry in Regional Banking services, as Dale and I highlighted in our recent joint letter to the Senate. Please get behind it!

Our submission is available to view here and download : https://digitalfinanceanalytics.com/blog/loss-of-in-person-banking-letter-to-rarat-committee/

And a list of Senators by state is available here: https://citizensparty.org.au/aus-senate

If you care about the economic future of our regional towns and suburbs, then please contact your local Senators and tell them that they should support the initiative, ideally over the next few days, so as to create maximum impact in the final sitting week of the year.

The Regional: https://www.theregional.com.au/

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The Markets Believe … Honest …!

The latest edition of our finance and property news digest with a distinctively Australian flavour.

“CONTENTS*

0:14 Introduction
0:41 US Markets
5:50 European And UK Markets
7:40 Oil and Gold

8:16 Asian Markets
9:30 PBOC Monetary Policy
17:55 Japan
19:13 Australian Markets
22:45 Crypto
25:50 Summary And Close

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The Busted Flush Is A Real Thing! With Tarric Brooker

Another Friday canter through Tarric’s latest slides, as we look at the disconnect between monetary policy and real life. Is Australia somehow different?

Charts are here: https://avidcom.substack.com/p/charts-that-matter-25th-november?sd=pf

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The RBA’s Australian Exceptionalism Theory

What if the RBA’s monetary policy is too weak? Perhaps we are not as exceptional, and we may be following parallel tracks to those in New Zealand and The Federal Reserve. How different are we really?

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The Bank Puppet Masters Pull The Government Strings Again…

Laws to implement some of the remaining recommendations from the Hayne Royal Commission, including penalties for bankers supported by the Greens was pulled yesterday, thanks to direct pressure applied by the banking industry and their lobbyists.

As a result, legislation to sharpen up protection of consumer credit were also shelved, and a number of customers with specific complaints in the works are now in limbo.

A weak Government, whose strings are being pulled by the Bankers?

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Are Black Friday Sales A Con?

Does what if says on the tin?

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China Provides More Stimulus To Support The Economy!

China looks like it will reduce the reserve requirement ratio (RRR), or the amount of cash that banks must hold in reserve, to shore up its slowing economy amid growing headwinds.

This is an attempt to stimulate the economy (reverse to Federal Reserve and other Western economies) by encouraging banks to lend harder to the property sector and in response to the COVID lock downs.

Question is of course is, will it work – or just slim the reserves of the banks some more….

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ASIC And The Collapse Of FTX…

The FTX Story continues to run with reports of missing funds and deceptions. In Australia, ASIC appears to have been asleep again, as we find that the local instance of FTX – who owes money to some 30,000 investors – used a back door method of get a local license to operate.

So once again the Financial cop was found wanting!

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