The budget reached the cabinet on schedule. Al-Zaidi…spent Monday in Paris, across a table from Edouard de Rothschild of Rothschild and Co…On the day the most consequential document in Iraq’s fiscal history lands in Baghdad, Iraq’s head of government is in Europe showing the books to the oldest banking name on the continent. A leader worried about his budget stays home and argues over spending lines. A leader whose budget is settled goes abroad and sells what comes after it…The budget bill will be submitted to lawmakers on October 15…Nothing slipped. Cabinet has the draft today, on schedule. What October 15 gives us is something Baghdad has never printed before: the exact width of the gap between the draft and the vote. Reset Intelligence
