Recessionberg launches bank inquiry into self

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It’s never enough bubble for Joshy Recessionberg:

The big four banks will be ­officially investigated for their repeated failures to pass on the full extent of central bank rate cuts to consumers under a government-launched probe into home-loan gouging.

Josh Frydenberg has directed the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission to investigate the pricing of residential mortgages as the sector continues to snub its nose at the Reserve Bank, despite an overall fall in funding costs for the banks.

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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.