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How long will you have to exchange your IQD? Iraq’s 2003 swap ran for months. Kuwait’s 1991 swap ran the same way. The CBI sets the window when it announces.  Have […]

Iraq’s oil is flowing again… Baghdad is selling its oil again at close to the pace it sold before the war…The oil minister says exports are above 3.4 million barrels […]

If you are new here: Iraq lowered its official rate to 1,520 on October 7, and we read that as step one of three…Take the zeros off the notes next. Then […]

There is a lot to be excited about this month. October has already given us more to work with than any month this year, and it is not over yet…I am […]

There is no live rate on Forex for the dinar yet, so no bank anywhere has a price to pay you or a market to sell your notes on. Last week’s […]

For more than 20 years, IQD holders…have said Iraq is the linchpin for the global currency reset.  [Last] week they showed you why. Washington is in more than $40 trillion […]

After your exchange, someone will offer to manage your money for 1% a year.  It sounds  small. If your money can safely pay you about 3.5% a year, a 1% […]

1,500 is the rate Iraq uses at home for its budget and its banks. It is not an international rate, and it is not the number a holder outside Iraq […]

Reset Intelligence: Iraq’s government is (finally) complete. On Thursday parliament filled the last empty ministries, Interior and Defense among them…Only the Ministry of Migration was left open…And Washington sanctioned an […]

Reset Intelligence: Iraq’s government says it plans to bring the dollar’s street price in Baghdad down to 1,550 IQD, which in essence means removing the reason for the parallel market […]

Iraq’s government spokesman says the government and the Central Bank plan to bring the dollar’s street price in Baghdad down to 1,550 dinars in the near term, backed by the bank’s […]

Reset Intelligence : The Central Bank’s foreign reserves stood at about $102 billion in February, $94 billion in May and $86 billion at the end of June. A further fall […]

In 2019 the US Treasury sanctioned Laith al-Khazali.  On Thursday Iraq’s parliament votes on making him a deputy prime minister.  His brother leads Asaib Ahl al-Haq, one of the most […]

Did you lose money? In dollars, on paper, a little.  In notes, nothing. You hold the same number of notes you held on [last] Tuesday.  At the old public rate, 1 […]

The official Iraqi dinar exchange rate went from 1,300 / 1,310 / 1,320 to 1,500 / 1,510 / 1,520 IQD per US dollar, effective October 7, 2026…The dinar lost about […]

A bloc in Iraq’s parliament has asked the Federal Supreme Court to reverse the cut to the IQD. The bloc is tied to Kataib Hezbollah, the armed faction that has […]

Iraq ordered 7.5 billion new banknotes in August.  Nobody in Iraq has been told the day they will be released. What you are witnessing is deliberate. Old notes will have […]

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 […]