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Back in April, Washington blocked its cash shipments to Iraq to force Baghdad’s hand on […]

A public who has spent weeks hearing the state cannot pay [their salaries] will greet […]

Iraqi salaries running late is not news. What is news is Baghdad stopped excusing the […]

Iraq’s smallest banknotes have vanished from the market stalls. Baghdad sent its top financial advisor on TV […]

Do Baghdad’s two empty [cabinet] chairs get filled first with the Iraqi militias disarming after […]

Baghdad keeps doing quiet, boring, specific things to its money that only make sense in […]

The sequence we are watching, IMO, is not [cabinet] seats first.  It is the weapons […]

While corrupt militias still hold ground and threaten the region, no budget passes, no oil […]

Mazhar Muhammad Salih, the Prime Minister’s financial advisor, went on camera about the missing 250 […]

Washington is drawing a new map of the world’s money.  The IQD sits in the […]

Tuesday night Baghdad’s prime minister stood in Ankara and sold Turkey a quarter of his country’s […]

A country does not get to benefit from a stronger currency until one government, and […]

Non-oil revenue hit a record 16% of government income, up from under 5% before 2020. […]

An economic expert floated removing one zero from the dinar. No official has confirmed it…Removing […]

Iraq’s prime minister signed a rail line to carry trade into Iran, and in the […]

A currency gets a new value the day the country behind it gets clean enough […]

The rate is not the thing trapped behind the WTO. It waits on a budget […]

Why does [the Iraq dinar] sit at 1300 to the dollar?  Because 1300 was written […]

Connections do not open the redemption channel, documentation does.  A passport, original purchase receipts, ideally from […]

We are closer to this than we have ever been…Most people have no idea it […]

Al-Zaidi runs a half-built cabinet. Parliament seated 14 of his 23 ministers back in May […]

The Iraqi dinar stays frozen at a program rate, far below what a country sitting […]

You do not rebuild your whole financial system to keep a currency worthless. You do […]

When the notes change the mattress stuffed money has to come out. You cannot exchange […]

Iraq does not publish announcements before an event and the central bank does not telegraph […]

Iraq’s prime minister is in Washington …He brought his entire economic cabinet and booked 5 […]

The dinar trades at 1,300 to the dollar for one reason… That number is frozen […]

Iraq’s prime minister just flew to Washington…His central bank governor is on the plane. So […]