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The Importance of Analytical Clarity in Public Policy
Kevin Rudd signed off a package of bank guarantees worth $2.5 trillion in 2009. It was the right course of action but it still ultimately hangs on me, he says. But it worked and we had no run on the Australian banks. No one lost their savings deposits. The guarantee lasted for three months before markets stabilised.