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Sovereignty days are now on the official calendar…Official work stops Wednesday September 30 and stays dark through Saturday October 3rd…A 4-day shutdown…It’s not a trigger but it does look clean… […]

Militia Man: Iraq’s integration into the global financial system is real.  Parts of it are already at an advanced level.  Other parts are underway…Is it finished?  No …Is the dinar’s […]

A currency is not a lottery ticket.  A currency is a country’s unit of account backed by an institution that can keep the prices stable, low inflation, meet demand for foreign […]

Deleting the zeros is a unit change, the numbers on the notes get smaller.  Prices and wages get rewritten to match.  That does not by itself make a dinar buy […]

The question I keep getting is simple.  Is Iraq really moving into the global financial system or is it just talk?  This integration is real.  It’s underway.  Parts of it are […]

Zaidi goes to New York [this] week.  He speaks at the United Nations.  He meets with President Trump.  He goes to the US Chambers of Commerce.  And then 30 September […]

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.  […]

A redenomination, deleting the zeros, is a unit change.  It simplifies the currency, forces a note exchange and can help pull cash into formal channels…It does not by itself change the […]

The United States just made an announcement about 65 billion barrels of oil the United States is going to control from Venezuela…I think we all should be paying attention to […]

Article: “A crisis of confidence and a cash economy:  Round 97 trillion Iraqi dinars are outside the banking system”   roughly 90- 97 trillion dinars sitting outside the formal banking system out […]

Purchasing power vs. redenomination  –  What’s the difference?  With a redenomination there’s no purchasing power.  It does “ease of use”…A straight redenomination, simply deleting zeros and issuing new notes, changes […]

They’re doing it on their own timelines.  [All the components] don’t all have to happen at the same time.  Just like the check boxes…they don’t have to have them all done, […]

They’re talking about strengthening  the position of the Iraqi dinar.  If you’re going to remove zeros, you’re not strengthening anything – it’s a redenomination.  It’s like a reverse split in […]

You see JP Morgan involved.  What are they talking about?  They’re talking about doing bank transfers.  They’re talking about opening a branch in the country of Iraq, in Baghdad.  I […]

The Central Bank has never denied a real effective exchange rate was to come…Nor have  they decided to say that we’re not doing the delete the zeros project.  The Prime Minister […]

The Washington visit is being framed as the next big catalyst for investment, tech transfer, and deeper global integration — all of which strengthen the fundamentals for long-term REER stability […]

The architecture is accelerating, serious momentum towards full integration…We’re in one of the most important windows we’ve seen in a very long time.  Multiple major files are converging at the […]

Key developments from the last couple of days.  There’s a clear pattern forming and the architecture continues to tighten with obvious purpose…They’re showing a real cleanup is happening …By them […]

A managed REER adjustment may now be more prudent ahead of the Washington visit makes total good sense to me.  With Hormuz reopening, oil revenue pressure eases, reserves stabilize and […]

The growing confidence in the gatekeepers have in the path Iraq is on right now. Remember the United States said they would like to see certain things happen with this […]

The Development Road Project is one of the big issues.  Everybody should take it as serious as I do because it’s going to be those non-oil revenue streams to a scale […]

Alaq has been firm and confident ruling out devaluation.  He’s been saying it numerous time which is fascinating because they can’t tell you about a revaluation.  That is not in […]

What we’re seeing is not the same as it was 15 years ago.   It’s not even close.   It’s very exciting to see everything tying in… : Militia Man 

The fundamentals are improving in Iraq and the system is ready for bigger monetary steps.  That’s what they’re doing.  They’re making sure everybody understand what they can do is plausible but they […]

I don’t hype things…It’s just real raw data we have collected…Experience shows we can take all this data and show just how complex this information is and has been for […]

Iraq has about $16 Trillion worth of raw materials…Silica, phosphate, sulfur, liquid natural gas, oil, gold…rare earths…as well as…tourism…trains, trucking…

The last 48 hours have been genuinely powerful.  We’ve moved from political uncertainty to a seated government while the CBI and economic institutions continue serious execution.  The convergences are not […]

This is a really  powerful time for what we’re witnessing.  Everybody is like, ‘How long is it going to take? When’s this going to take place?‘ They’re not going to […]

The technical foundation for a real effective exchange rate is still being strengthened…The CBI is further along than the public narrative suggests…They are not waiting around.  They’re actively  building the infrastructure […]

The last three years have delivered real milestones that include, reserve growth, gold accumulation, non-oil revenue expansion, ASYCUDA and TIR rollout, digital payments, port and corridor work, and banking modernization… […]