“Gobsmackingly moronic” APRA “captured” by major banks

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You heard it here first but now others are saying it, via The Australian:

The Australian can reveal six of the nine executives running the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority are former senior banking executives, and three joined the executive within weeks of Malcolm Turnbull calling a royal commission into ­financial services in December last year.

Andrew Schmulow, a senior law lecturer at the University of Western Australia and a former senior research associate at the University of Melbourne School of Law, criticised a recent submission that APRA chairman Wayne Byres made to the royal commission.

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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.