We are in the Home Stretch Now Folks… I think that Al-Zaidi’s crew is running a shadow ledger alongside the published budget numbers, and that shadow ledger is where the rate gets calculated in the 2027 draft they’ll hand Parliament on the 15th has been through four closed-door revisions in the past ten days. Where the financial committee, the CBI governor, and a quiet contact from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Technical Assistance sat in a room in the Green Zone and most likely massaged the figures until the performance metrics spit out a 3.5 – to – 1 peg that the gold reserves can support without triggering a bank run. Ariel
