Ex-millionaire’s factory boss gets RBA board seat

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We are rooted, from Bloomie:

Allan Moss, a former chief executive officer of Macquarie Group Ltd., has been appointed to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s board, the government said Tuesday.

Mr Moss, who ran Australia’s biggest investment bank for almost 15 years before stepping down in 2008, was appointed for a five-year term, Treasurer Scott Morrison said in an e-mailed statement.

Catherine Tanna, the former chairman of BG Group Plc’s Australia unit, was re-appointed for a further five-year term, he said.

In his management of the Macquarie Bank infrastructure powerhouse, Moss oversaw the creation of a global scale ponzi-business that required bailout in the GFC after he’d seredipitously jumped ship. He now runs Allan Moss Investments, a private investment company which engages in a range of activities including venture capital, which just enjoyed a fabulous boost

How do these selections get made, FFS.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.