Bueno, disculpas por el titular sensacionaVista pero no lo he podido evitar al ver la noticia:

PRESSURE on the Federal Government over its bank deposit guarantee has escalated after three big financial institutions hit with a spate of withdrawals by customers last night froze their accounts.

Tens of thousands of Australians, many of them retirees, are now unable to get immediate access to their capital after AXA Asia Pacific, Perpetual Investment Management and Australian Unity suspended withdrawals from some funds.

... (sigue en el link fuente)

Go to Centrelink: Swan's advice on frozen funds | theage.com.au

__________________

¿Corralito?

El artículo es del día 24.

En artículo dice que ayer (el día 23) se sacaron cantidades de dinero veinte veces por encima de lo normal.

Lo importante es que salga en la TV y veamos las colas en los bancos. Supongo que en los medios ya estarían retransmitiendo boletines especiales. De ser cierto, veríamos como el virus se propaga de inmediato.

__________________

http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2010/02/09/2814351.htm

Australia close to defaulting on debts: Joyce

Posted Tue Feb 9, 2010 1:00pm AEDT
Updated Tue Feb 9, 2010 2:50pm AEDT
Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce

Debt warning: Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce

* Related Story: Joyce 'shooting from the lip' on US debt

Opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce is courting controversy again, warning that Australia is getting to the point where it will not be able to repay its overseas debt.

Senator Joyce says the Federal Government is borrowing billions of dollars from overseas to fund stimulus spending and programs like the National Broadband Network.

And he has questioned whether the Government is in a position to repay those loans.

"We're going into hock to our eyeballs to people overseas," he said.

"You've got to ask the question: how far into debt do you want to go? We are getting to a point where we can't repay it.

"Let's look at exactly what they're doing now and ask this very simple question: are you paying back your money, are you even meeting your interest component, and can you keep the debt stable?

"Or is the debt racing ahead by more than even the interest expense? And if it is, any household budget will tell you that's a very dangerous place to be."

Senator Joyce has already been attacked by Labor for suggesting the states are close to being unable to repay their debts.

Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has rejected Senator Joyce's latest comments.

He says Australia's public debt levels are among the lowest in the developed world and the Government has a plan to pay off the debt in just over a decade.

"Barnaby Joyce's comments again today show he is totally unfit for any kind of position of economic responsibility in this country," he said.

"They are totally ridiculous and grossly irresponsible."

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the remarks showed that Senator Joyce would be a risk to the economy if he was installed as finance minister.

"This is a most fundamentally irresponsible remark by someone who puts himself forward as the alternative finance minister of Australia, a man put in that position by a leader of the Opposition who says he has no interest in economics whatsoever," said Mr Rudd.

"So you ask sometimes about risk for the future, risk to the economy. Risk is here personified in an alternative finance minister who thinks you can play fast and loose with public language on Australia's sovereign debt."