We don’t need stronger banks, we need stronger regulation

by Richard Denniss in Crikey

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Originally published in Crikey on August 17, 2010

Don’t you just love the banks? They just give and give and give. In fact, they are so generous that, according to a recent survey by The Australia Institute, more than half of Australians who do not have a job received unsolicited offers of credit cards last year. Offering money to people in their time of need, how good is that?

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