Simple thought...if everyone knew Maliki could institute an RV at any time, especially just before elections/campaigning, is it really an "ace in the hole". Seriously, if all of us here are "aware" of his ability to revalue the currency at any time, wouldn't everyone and their cousin in Iraq have the same knowledge? Alternatively, why wouldn't one of Maliki's opponents scream from the mountain tops, "Hey, this guy's had the ability to make almost every single one of Iraq's citizens wealthy beyond anything you've ever known but he's been holding up the whole process because he want's to be re-elected." Not only would I not vote for him, I'd try to have him deported to Greenland. If I were running against Maliki, I'd pray he'd revalue at the last minute. Not only would I have an ultimate rebuttal to anything he said, I'd have a lot more money to campaign with in the final days of the election process.