Bank levies deliver welcome wake up call to foreign investors

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The AFR is whining like a baby today led by former Commonwealth Bank of Australia CFO David Craig:

“No international investor has bought a share in an Australian bank for the last month or two as far as I understand,” he says.

“Basically the sovereign risk – the fear of what is happening here – has them all spooked.”

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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.