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colin b asked in Business & FinanceCorporations · 1 decade ago

Are the Australian banks greedy?

Are the Australian banks that have raised interest rates justified or just money hungry dogs ?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They put the W back into Banker

  • LJG
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I laughed at the first answer, but the real answer is that they are reacting to what's happening with the sub-prime lenders overseas.

    The long and short of it is that banks are for the most part (aside from a couple of community-based banks) private businesses and need to make money and charge for their services. In the end, would you want to invest your money in a company that DIDN'T make a profit? If the bank goes down... in the end, in some way, so do you.

    Source(s): I work at a bank, and I'm paying just like the rest of you!
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The NAB is, raising rates before the reserve bank did

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