Dinar Observer Daily

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  The electronic age is going to allow them to….spend the money efficiently.  And for what?  The operational side of the budget and the investment side.  That’s one of the key things Sudani was waiting to be able to pay for.  He said he launched this program and they said they got started in implementation phase as of the 1st of July.  The investment portion of it has my concern because I think that’s where we’re going to be looking for the real effective exchange rate.

Kaperoni- Dinar Guru  Article: “Securities Commission: The government has successfully completed the sale of financial bonds“

Pimpy – Dinar Guru    July 18th is going to be good.  They get to go there, meet with the World Trade Organization.  There’s going to be information and reforms and requests made by the WTO that they are going to hand off to Iraq.  Iraq is going to go over there and drop off additional materials that was requested from the last meeting and ask questions to make sure their accession into the World Trade Organization continues to go as smoothly as possible.  As far as the exchange rate is concerned, no it’s not going to be brought up there because that’s not the job of the WTO.

Mountain Goat – Dinar Guru  …everything is set to move ahead with the process of currency reform. We are just waiting. We know that the next step must be taken to move ahead and that is to revalue in-country only first just slightly over a dollar, then conduct the Project to Delete the Zeros as the currency swap out takes place. The CBI told us then they plan to monitor for a short time for inflation and then move to reinstate the dinar back to FOREX and when doing so the IMF plans to place the dinar in a new peg as in a basket of currencies and float it.   …this should have already been accomplished in June and is late. It is failure on the part of the US because the US is still stalling it.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru   Community comment: “July 18th is the next meeting [between WTO and Iraq], they need to RV before then”  No they don’t have to RV.  People keep associating the RV with the accession into the World Trade Organization…The World Trade Organization doesn’t deal with the exchange rate.  They deal with the regulation and transparency of trade between countries.  That’s it.

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Iraq has a project to delete the zeros.  The delete the zeros hasn’t happened yet…  Iraq doesn’t have an international acceptable tradable currency just yet…

Samson – Dinar Guru   Article:   “Who is the new Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian?”  Article:  “Pezeshkian as Iran’s President“

Sandy Ingram – Dinar Guru  The two exchange rates [Official rate and market rate] MUST come into alignment before there can be an increase in the currency value.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru  Article quote:  “In the face of the strength of the official central exchange market the exchange rate of the dollar to the dinar in the parallel market today in our country does not constitute any relative importance in the stability of the general level of prices…due to the impact of the current dominant official exchange rate factor on the financing of foreign trade imports of 1300 per dollar.”  You guys aren’t going to like this but what this guy is saying is they’re very comfortable with the current exchange rate because it’s very strong.  It doesn’t sound too much like they want to change it anytime soon.

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Article: “Prime Minister’s Advisor: Iraq in the process of paying off long-term development loans to the World Bank” It looks like Iraq’s financial situation is solid as they get effectively. She has so many revenue streams coming on board now it will only get better and the World Bank, the IMF, the UST, etc all know it.   Hence, the view of Iraq will bring confidence to the largest Banks and Financial Entities in the world. That was broadcasted globally too.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru  Question: “So you’re saying there will not be a reevaluation?”  I never said that.  That’s one of  those fake rumors that are going on around about me, that I said that’ll never revalue.  I never ever ever ever said that it’s  never going to revalue.  What I told people is, it might not happen the way people think and that’s what people don’t like.   

Sandy Ingram – Dinar Guru   If the Iraqi dinar revalued next week are you ready? …Understanding this one fact, you will  do just fine.  The wealthy never never ever spend their bases or the foundation of their wealth.  In your case this would be the  profits from your Iraqi dinars...Wealthy people invest their initial profits.  The first person they hire is a financial advisor.   The second…is a tax professional…to make sure Uncle Sam doesn’t get large sums of their money.  If you do anything else you are in the fast lane to going broke.

 Clare – Dinar Guru  Article: “Iraq announces the start of direct flights between Baghdad and Beijing”   

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Key players are ready to get this thing done.  It’s a very good sign.  I honestly believe we’re watching history in the making…We’re seeing progress like no other…If you’re paying attention I think you guys should be really pumped and excited that things are happening.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru  Article quote: “Saleh showed in the news that the fixed exchange rate system in Iraq is based on the international reserve base that is the highest in Iraq’s history and monetary policy as their foreign currency covers more than 100% of its total currencies issued.”  I spoke about this before saying that the more Iraq has in foreign currency reserves the stronger its currency will be.  Right now they’re at the highest it’s ever been.

Mountain Goat – Dinar Guru   “In light of the strength of the official central exchange market, the exchange rate of the dollar to the dinar in the parallel market today in our country does not constitute any relative importance in influencing the stability of the general price level…”  Saleh… financial advisor to the Prime Minister…is telling us…the parallel market versus the official rate are under control and no longer an issue for stability. It also tells me they have their inflation problem under control. This is amazing because my CBI contact told me this one of a few other issues was the reason why the Project to Delete the Zeros was not kicking off…

Pimpy – Dinar Guru  Question: “Is the exchange real?”  The exchange is real if you’re talking about the currency.   It’s a legitimate currency.  Right now you can get 1320 dinars for every $1.00.

Clare – Dinar Guru  Article:  “World Bank: Iraq maintains its status within the upper middle-income category“  Quote: “The bank added that it classifies the world’s economies into four income groups: low-income countries, lower-middle-income countries, upper-middle-income countries, and high-income countries, based on per capita gross national income. The measures of gross national income are expressed in US dollars.“

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  The Oil and Gas [Law] and the presidency of the House of Representatives, I think those are going to be coming, tie to tie, hand in hand because…if they need to value…assets, they’re going to need a real effective exchange rate…

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Iraq has a meeting with the WTO according to the calendar…on or around the 18th of this month.  What is it about?  It’s talking about their accession process, whether that’s going to happen or not that day I don’t know but assuming that it’s moving forward it sounds like their accession is going to be imminent.

Paulette – Dinar Guru  Question: “Iraq is supposed to join the WTO this 18th of July, is that correct?”   the 18th is the next meeting of the Steering Committee…the Full Assembly would have to vote to allow Iraq full accession…they are not scheduled to meet until early 2026…It would be extremely uncommon for a Steering Committee to only meet with a country 2 times after the initial meeting.  4 to 7 is the usual…this only the second meeting of the Steering Committee for Iraq.

Clare – Dinar Guru  Question: “Iraq is supposed to join the WTO this 18th of July, is that correct?”  IT WAS REPORTED ON IRAQI TV…THAT IRAQ WILL BE FULL MEMBERS  OF THE WTO JULY 18TH.

Mountain Goat – Dinar Guru   The news is still concentrating mostly on bringing in foreign investors and they told us today that there was a two part plan, and this plan is now completed…The other part of the ongoing news from Iraq is still about the Parallel Market rate vs the Official CBI rate of the dollar…Saleh works with this issue daily and he is executing a plan. The plan takes time but Saleh says it is working and again tells us “soon” the parallel will equal the official rate… [Post 1 of 2….stay tuned]

Mountain Goat  So the rate is slowly stabilizing as has now reached 1,220 from 1,320. The goal is 1,121.  Folks this is not too far off…This is all good news…Am I telling you they will RV when it reaches their goal. Of course not but these rates adjustments tell us they can not hold this back much longer and even with their own criteria something must be done and done soon to bring the dinar to the international investment world and free it up…  [Post 2 of 2]

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  Why haven’t you produced any oil out of the Cyan Pipeline?  What about the Hydrocarbon Law?   How come you haven’t seen that done yet?  Why?  Because they’re waiting for something that the Central Bank of Iraq is the one that’s going to be able to talk about and I think that’s a real effective exchange rate.

Pimpy – Dinar Guru  Will the exchange rate change?  Yes of course it will but there are still some hurdles that Iraq must continue to go through before they make that change…I guarantee you and I promise you this, nobody, not a single person out there, anywhere knows what the rate is going to be or when it’s going to happen.  They will let us all know when the time comes.   In the meantime if you at least are aware of what you’re looking for, it gives you an idea of how long things are going to take.

Sandy Ingram – Dinar Guru   Article:  “Advisor to the Association of Banks:The third strategy of the Central Bank is a new methodology for financial and banking reform”  The Central Bank is prepared to achieve all goals in the second half of 2024 and the years of 2025 and 2026. …these are from the original white papers that we talked about a couple years back.  This article is the first indication that the white papers are the guiding light to the CBI’s progress toward financial stability and banking reforms that aligns with International banking standards.

Militia Man – Dinar Guru  You’re not going to get Iraq to jump into the world market, the global stage, without being able to be competitive and communicate electronically – Platforms needed to be designed…We know they have e-government…e-education, they have all that and done it over a short period of time.  The electronic systems at the borders, the ISA system are global.  They are worldly…The WTO is at the core of this.  It’s real.

Mountain Goat  Like I said way back in 2023 even before the budget was finalized that there would NEVER be an RV rate in any budget. Why? Because the Iraqi budget is based on the selling price of a barrel of oil and not their currency rate…Budgets are based on revenues not currency rates.

Clare – Dinar Guru  Article: “Dinar Explainer 1: Why Iraq has Two Exchange Rates” Quote:  “On a recent webinar organized by the Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC), Professor Frank Gunter of Lehigh University explained the causes and effects of Iraq’s dual exchange rate…“ 1.  Excessive Demand for US Dollars Internationally:…  2. Internal Demand for Dollars…  3. De-Dollarization Efforts by the New York Fed:  The New York Federal Reserve has restricted dollar transfers to reduce dollar flows to Iran and Syria. They have also excluded over two dozen Iraqi banks from transactions, which has increased the complexity and demand for dollars in Iraq.