"Our banks are faced with the very same dilemma. Month after month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics unveils figures detailing a drop in lending for new housing and for business, falls to levels not seen in decades, sometimes of a magnitude never before recorded. No-one is borrowing." Join discussion...

Are Australia's banking system vulnerable? Join discussion...

If banks continue to lose money on new mortgages, there is a risk of a credit crunch in Australia. Join discussion...

Banks are making losses on mortgages written over the past four months? Join discussion...

Banks super-profit tax coming? Join discussion...

The Chinese government is shuffling money to preempt any bursting of the bubble. Will it work? Join discussion...

Is Patrick Chovanec turning more bearish? Join discussion...

Antal Fekete's discussion of what caused the Great Depression and who profited from it (and why). Join discussion...

Seems that the RBA is on standby to print money for the banks. Join discussion...

Michael Pascoe has his rose-coloured glasses on and believes that the IMF, RBA and Treasury are right in their forecast of growth and that our banks will be profitable Join discussion...