Wayne Byers gobbles CCP chockies as mortgages rocket

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More pressure today for Australia’s most corrupt regulator, Wayne Byers and his disastrous APRA, via Domain:

Banking regulators may have to tighten lending standards sooner than expected amid fresh signs the Reserve Bank of Australia’s back-to-back interest rate cuts have enticed investors back into the property market.

…ANZ economists Adelaide Timbrell and Felicity Emmett said as lending for housing and property prices had increased since the rate cuts, regulators were going to have to consider tightening lending standards.

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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.