9-8-2026 Newshound Guru Jeff The odds are the rate will change before you and I even know what the heck even happened…For most of us the rate would have already changed and we would have exited out before we witness what the heck happened or how it played out.
9-8-2026 Intel Guru Guy We have a few hard known dates…We know the Status of Force agreement for the US military ends officially September 30th. That means the US must withdraw all their armed forces from the country of Iraq. The schedule has been pushed ahead to September 15th…but in terms of treaties it’s the end of September. When that happens that means Iraq is finally a sovereign nation state on its own.
9-8-2026 Guest Guru David Question: “Your theory is that the USA is using Iraq [dinar] as a beta test to do in other countries. Is that what you’re getting at?” David: Yes, including ours. That’s the goal. Venezuela is next.
9-8-2026 Newshound Guru Militia Man Printing more dinars to cover salaries is not a rate move. It’s more local cash against the same pile of dollars. It usually means a weaker dinar and higher prices. Deleting zeros is not a richer country. It’s new notes with the same value…It makes ease-of-use but it’s not going to make a stronger economy…A REER adjustment is the official rate…matching the real economy…An “adjustment” means correct the misalignment…The Effective rate – Iraq does not only trade with the United States. It buys and sell with Turkey, China, the Gulf, Europe, Iran and others. The effective rate weights those partners by trade share.
9-8-2026 Intel Guru Frank26 We need the black market and the official rate to come together where you can have a 1 to 1 rate…They’re working on it.
9-8-2026 Newshound Guru Sandy Ingram The governor of the Central Bank of Iraq has now publicly addressed the issue of changing Iraq’s currency and deleting the zeros…There appears to be two separate issues being discussed. 1) According to the governor, changing the currency falls under the authority of the Central Bank of Iraq. 2) According to the governor deleting the zeros…would require legislation from Iraq’s parliament…It means the central bank may have the authority to redesign, replace or print currency. But if Iraq actually wants to move forward with deleting the zeros…parliament would have to become involved…If we eventually see…formal legislation proposal dealing with the deletion of the zeros submitted…that could represent a much more significant step than the discussions and statements we have been following.
9-8-2026 Newshound Guru Reset Intelligence Iraq faced its first bank run of the cleanup…Depositors crowded the doors of Al-Taif Islamic Bank in Baghdad demanding their money back. One woman told reporters she has 220 million dinars locked inside, about $168,000. A second crowd formed at the bank’s Basra branch. Iraqi social media called it the start of a collapse…The state saw it coming. The day before the crowd reached the door, the Central Bank of Iraq published a written guarantee of the country’s deposits…A run on the banks is the one event a currency operation cannot survive. So today we set aside the missiles and the ministers for a moment and look at how Iraq handled its first one. [Post 2 of 2]
9-8-2026 Newshound Guru Reset Intelligence Today the [currency] operation met its first stress test…A currency change over has one weak point. Forget the printing, paperwork and parliament. The weak point is the morning every citizen decides whether to walk toward a [bank] counter or away from it…The [banking] rails depends on millions of Iraqis voluntarily walking what they hold into a bank. A public that runs from banks does not walk into them holding their life savings. Sunday a few hundred Iraqis queued to take their money out and the state’s answer was already on the record…a written guarantee…a named-deposit insurer…The day the real announcement lands, all of Iraq becomes a queue outside a bank. This week was the rehearsal for how the state treats a queue… [Post 1 of 2]
9-8-2026 Newshound Guru Stephen Article: “Central Bank Governor: As of today there are no international sanctions on the Iraqi banking sector” Can you say internationally accepted currency, internationally traded currency!? Ding, ding, ding. This article is critical…We now have an official CBI statement that gives the broader banking reform context…This is confirming restrictions and sanctions have been lifted. Iraq can begin to function and operate on a global scale on the international stage which is something we have always needed to see. This is very very exciting.
9-8-2026 Intel/Newshound Guru MarkZ Comment: Walkingstick say Aki (Iraqi Bank owner) says “Everything is set in motion“. MarkZ: I definitely believe that one to be accurate.
9-8-2026 Newshound Guru tishwash …new information coincides with previous statements by Iraqi Communications Minister Mustafa Sanad, who said during August that a decision regarding the removal of zeros and the change of currency had been decided at the political level, and linked the move to bringing out hoarded funds and returning them to the economic cycle and the banking system.
9-8-2026 Intel Guru Bruce [via WiserNow] question is: Have we moved far enough yet to where we can see the completion of the RV, the exchanges, the completion by the end of September? Now, that’s what I’m hearing. That means all exchanges done, redemption centers open and closed, everything good to go by the end of September.
