9-17-2026 Newshound Guru Thom Question: “What is a reasonable fee to pay a bank for IQD to dollars exchange?” Thom: Each bank will have different rate ranges. I am okay with CHASE doing 3 – 3.5% because I have relationships with people who work there and I am paying for speed. At our house, we decided the fees don’t matter as much as getting things done quickly because we are reinvesting right away.
9-17-2026 Newshound Guru Sandy Ingram The United States holds a powerful financial lever. All of Iraq’s oil revenues are held through the Central Bank of Iraq’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This arrangement gives Washington considerable influence over the movement of US dollar into Iraq…Washington stopped the flow of dollars in April of this year. So they’ve already done it once. We believe they will do it again…Businesses need dollars to pay foreign supplier for food, medicine, equipment and other goods…Iraq is not paying for its debt in the IQD. They are paying or their imports in US dollars… The Iraqi dinar could face immediate pressure and…drop in value…weakening confidence in the dinar…The US is serious about their dollars.
9-17-2026 Newshound Guru Samson Article: “THE PARLIAMENTARY FINANCE COMMITTEE: THE PRICE OF A BARREL OF OIL IN THE UPCOMING BUDGET WILL BE BETWEEN $53 AND $56“
9-17-2026 Newshound Guru Stephen Everything is converging together. That’s what makes this so freaking exciting. We’re seeing bank restructuring and governance reform, international correspondent banking and trade finance normalization, US Treasury coordination and higher AML, CFT enforcement, exchange company supervision and reduction of questionable currency channels, liquidity absorption, stronger monetary policy tools, digital payment and deliberate reduction of cash dependence…If they were getting ready to do [an RV/RI] this would mean we’re pretty much at the doorstep.
9-17-2026 Intel Guru Reset Intelligence The people drafting Iraq’s 2027 budget let their working price for a barrel of oil surface in the Iraqi press: somewhere between $50 and $70, while the barrel trades above $100. A government that lives on oil does not price its only product at half the market unless it expects the world that made the barrel expensive to be gone…Kuwait wrote its budget year on a $57 barrel…The budget that carries Iraq’s barrel also has to carry the dinar’s value, and it reaches parliament October 15, two weeks after the September 30 weapons deadline…Everyone in this story has now shown their number except the one bank that owns the only number that matters.
9-17-2026 Newshound Guru Jeff It’s not coincidence that the cabinet is being delayed. That’s planned…Completing the cabinet which completes the full government formation, ushers in the rate change. That’s why they have to stall it. They have to delay it. It’s planned. It’s scripted. They’re waiting to complete the cabinet until the rate change time period. Once they complete the cabinet…the rate will change quickly after that.
9-17-2026 Guest Guru Kenny Iraq’s currency-reform readiness pathway chart…
9-17-2026 Intel Guru Bruce [via WiserNow] My gut on this is we’re … probably looking at Thursday possibility of getting notifications…If we get notified Thursday, could we go Thursday? Yeah…I’m going to add Friday…in play for this week… Now we…need…the Iraqi dinar, to show up on the forex, and then we can roll.
