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Iraqi-press channels report that new banknotes come next in Iraq, with the zeros off, and that Baghdad is keeping the start date secret so that illicit cash cannot move first. […]

Reset Intelligence : Two numbers tell you how it is going, where Baghdad [market rate] closes against the bank’s own price shows whether dollars are reaching people, the monthly oil exports […]

Why are former ministers and prime ministers being arrested for corruption…?  Why did Iraq invite America’s banks in? Why has Iraq ordered 7.5 billion new banknotes? Why is a note […]

If you can’t see what is happening right now behind all of the noise and distraction, I urge you to look deeper and ask yourself [these questions]…Why was the Strait […]

A state…with new banknotes already ordered, 175.6 tonnes of gold…and 145 billion barrels of oil in the ground…took step 1 overnight with the rest of the sequence already designed is […]

A bank preparing to cut its currency does not train exchange houses, buy gold and auction bills at the same the same steady rate week after week.  Our position has […]

Iraq’s cut to 1,500 is the first move in a sequence: Lower the rate. Replace the currency. Raise the rate…Step one is now done.  Most people have forgotten how much of […]

The first trading day of Iraq’s new dinar rate ended with two of Baghdad’s main wholesale markets locked. Shops and warehouses…closed…and exchange houses closed with them, because traders could not […]

Say the cut to 1500 is the first move….A step down that is followed by a step up does something an ordinary devaluation never does.  It makes leaving the currency […]

Iraq lowered the dinar’s official rate this morning. The Council of Ministers approved it in Tuesday’s session and the Central Bank adopted it: 1,500 IQD to the dollar buying from […]

On Sunday night one outlet reported that Iraq’s 2027 budget values $100 at 150,000 IQD. On Monday evening the same outlet carried a currency market spokesman saying the decision will […]

That budget is due in parliament by October 15, and it has to state the IQD rate it is built on…The CBI sets the rate by law… :Reset Intelligence

Central banks are still buying. Poland added 82 tonnes of gold in the first 6 months of this year, China’s central bank has bought for 22 months in a row, and […]

Purchase receipts, dealer invoices, dates, amounts – Proof of where your notes came from decides how smoothly money moves later.  Build the folder now while it is easy…The difference between […]

Outsiders agree to settle in your money once they believe in your books. Look at what you’ve watched Iraq do – audits, bank seizures, tellers trained, salaries moved to cards, customs […]

  The economist who has argued for 30 years that the dollar should be tied to gold again is now counselor to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Her best-known proposal […]

Iraq marks Sovereignty Day this morning…The news that matters to you as an IQD holder came out of Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.  The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange…switched Iraq’s stock market into […]

The coalition that arrived in 2014 closes its mission today, with the last soldiers gone since Sunday.  On Tuesday, the day before that deadline, Iraq’s Council of Ministers voted through…the […]

Reset Intelligence: Nobody at the [bank] counter will explain the spread to you. Every exchange has a gap between the rate you see and the rate you get.  On a large […]

For most of the past 23 years, the IQD has traded in a country with American soldiers on its soil.  As of Sunday, Iraq’s Foreign Minister says there are none […]

The moment good news [of the dinar RV] breaks is the moment the scams arrive.  Fake buyers, fake processing fees, fake urgency.  Anyone who contacts you first and asks for […]

Two documents decide whether your exchanges clears smoothly – Identity and source of funds.  Have both ready…and most of the friction disappears.  Arrive without them and you are the delay. […]

Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi sat down with a table of American banks and financial institutions. He told them why Baghdad’s banks have been weak. In part, his office wrote, it […]

The Iraqi dinar was born in 1932, the same year Iraq became independent with British air bases still on its soil. The last British forces left in 1959, and that […]

Iraq priced its 2027 budget barrel at half the market. Kuwait did the same. The law that carries that number also carries the IQD’s new rate…A central bank tells you […]

CBI Governor Nizar Nasser Hussein put the authority map in writing: new banknote denominations are the bank’s decision alone, deleting the three zeros needs a bill through parliament, and a note […]

Everyone has read September 30 as the day the troops leave Iraq.  On Thursday, Iraq’s Ministry of Finance read it differently…”Sovereignty in money…that the financial decision be Iraqi.” …The official rate […]

We have watched [the CBI] through every loud week since April and its discipline has not cracked once. It denied the new notes, while the production notice surfaced, it denied […]

A currency is sovereign when the state that issues it, sets the price, holds the revenue and clears its own payments.  Iraq has spent 23 years on the wrong side […]

A country declares sovereignty over its territory with a flag and a ceremony.   Sovereignty and money has no ceremony.  It is declared with a number on a morning the […]