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  1. If they were just going to lop why wouldn't they have done it already. Assim that already distrusts the banks now has to get his 10 friends with wheel barrows to help him buy groceries. Yeah makes perfect sense.

    A redenomination takes some time and some planning.  However they have been discussing it for years I would think by now they would have started the countdown, if they were going to do it.  It appears the government is in favor of it, and Turki is not at this point in time.  So what is the problem?  The old dinar is dilapidated, the people are complaining, maybe they are waiting for the smart cards to show up.  Now an RV they can do any old day, but they have not.

  2. There are concerns too big of a shrinking currency may suggest to savers increase the value of their currency and thus went savers to banks in order to pull Mbalghm cash saved in banks and this would be confusing banking business in Iraq, which is characterized by the fact that the sector Almervi Iraqi sector Almtlki.

    That part leads me to think the removing of zeros may not be the dreaded LOP many on here think it is.

    Good point.

    ya  know  nothing better than  worn out -- yellowing --- ripped - torn   paper dinars ,  and  not to mention they are going to rely on this crap  paper for 3 more years ....  hahahhaha   what a maroon ....   {  yes  the paper is no good , but what will  take over is the smart cards ,  they are trying to get  every one in the region to use these cards ,  so they will not need to buy  a printer, and  ink, and the  guys to make the plates  to do the printing ,  all they need is  a  computer  linked up too the smart card devise , and  send  out  numbers only .....  }

    I am  now wondering  if they  actually  pay these  economist,  or  do they tell them  ---  do a study on  the currency  issues , if it is a good report we will pay you  handsomely , <-------  so  far those reports  must be paying off well ,  the  only dang report we keep seeing  is put off the printing , and lifting of  zero`s  <_<

    Actually Jeepguy the cards do take care of many issues.  The paper dinar will not last, but the cards will save them the expense of printing new dinars.

  3. If so, raising of the zero's after elections would sound about right for  RD.  Redoms usually are initiated after elections for political reasons.  It seems to me there are two plans on the table here, 1. deleting zero's, which I hate, its redenomination.  2, restructuring the currency....I think I might like that one better.  Anyway it sounds like two different plans in this sentence.

     

     

    She Najeebeh the belief that "near the parliamentary elections to make the central bank thinks postponing the implementation of the deletion of zeros or restructure the currency beyond the elections and the formation of a new government. ".

     

  4. Five U.S. agencies will finish the Volcker rule tomorrow after more than three years of Wall Street resistance to its limits on trading and investing. Lawmakers and their allies who want to rein in big banks are ready to pounce if it isn’t strict enough.

    Politicians and advocates -- some Democrats, some Republicans -- who blame the 2008 financial crisis on deregulation express concern that the Volcker rule won’t adequately block banks from making risky bets with their own money. If they deem the rule too weak, they say it will add fuel to a push to reinstate a Depression-era law known as Glass-Steagall that until 1999 split banks and securities firms.

    Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker said in testimony to Congress in 2010, “The basic point is that there has been, and remains, a strong public interest in providing a ‘safety net’ - in particular, deposit insurance and the provision of liquidity in emergencies - for commercial banks carrying out essential services.” Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg

    Such vows suggest U.S. lenders planning to challenge the ban in court risk a political backlash. A 2011 draft of the rule, required by the Dodd-Frank Act at the urging of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, disappointed some politicians and organizations who wanted a stronger ban. Lawmakers already have drafted legislation.

    Related: Volcker Rule to Force Banks to Comply With Five Regimes

    “If people aren’t satisfied with the implementation of this thing, that’ll redouble the pressure to go back and look for something else,” Marcus Stanley, policy director for Americans for Financial Reform, an umbrella group of more than 250 organizations pushing for stronger restrictions on Wall Street. “The Volcker rule was the major thing that said that these guys just crashed the world economy and we’re going to ban something.”

    The rule aims to reduce the chances that banks will put federally insured depositors’ money at risk by banning proprietary trading. The Dodd-Frank Act proposed limited exemptions on the ban for some hedging and market-making trades. The debate since has focused on how those exemptions should be defined.

    ‘Safety Net’

    “The basic point is that there has been, and remains, a strong public interest in providing a ‘safety net’ –- in particular, deposit insurance and the provision of liquidity in emergencies –- for commercial banks carrying out essential services,” Volcker, 86, said in testimony to Congress in 2010. “There is not, however, a similar rationale for public funds, taxpayer funds, protecting and supporting essentially proprietary and speculative activities.”

    Banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. andMorgan Stanley have argued that the Volcker rule is too broad, poorly defined and could restrict credit and increase costs for their clients.

    ‘Unintended Consequences’

    “If regulators curtail all proprietary trading in the U.S. banking system I worry about the unintended consequences in terms of the ability of the financial markets to have sufficient liquidity to function properly,” William Isaac, a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. who now overseesFifth Third Bancorp, said in an interview. “This is particularly worrisome with the economy at a time when the economy in the U.S. continues to limp along and in Europe appears to be sliding back into recession.”

    For their part, anti-Wall Street activists have lobbied for the opposite, to force banks to act more like a public utility and curb profit-seeking speculation.

    Related: Will the Volcker Rule Be Tough Enough?

    “Philosophically, what we would like to see is the return to Glass-Steagall,” said Bartlett Naylor, a lobbyist for Public Citizen. “When it came to Dodd-Frank, the closest we got was this.”

    The term Glass-Steagall usually refers to several provisions of the 1933 Banking Act that barred commercial banks from owning affiliates that underwrite and trade securities. The law included other measures to restore faith in the Depression-shattered banking system, including founding the FDIC to protect customers’ savings in the event of a bank failure.

    Firewall Breached

    In 1999, Congress passed a deregulation law known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that repealed the parts of Glass-Steagall that built a firewall between investment and commercial banking.

    During the congressional debate over Dodd-Frank, President Barack Obamaand his administration argued that simply restoring Glass-Steagall was an imperfect response to the financial crisis. They noted that the most troubled investments of the largest banks came through mortgage lending, not trading.

    “A huge amount of risk built up outside our banking system, outside the safeguards and protections we put in place in the Great Depression,” Timothy Geithner, who headed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the crisis and served as Obama’s first Treasury secretary, said last year in remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. “That risk and leverage grew up, built up, very substantially, and when the storm hit it put enormous pressure on a part of the system that provided about half the credit to the American economy. Nothing to do with Glass-Steagall.”

    Symbolic Importance

    In the Volcker rule, the administration and Glass-Steagall fans found an issue they could get behind, even while they clashed over its details.

    “It really took on a symbolic importance,” said Michael Barr, a former Treasury Department official who led the administration’s push on Dodd-Frank. Barr, now a professor at the University of Michigan, said the embrace by the advocates was crucial to its inclusion in the law.

    The view that deregulation of the financial industry in the 1990s was a prime cause of the 2008 crisis resonates with both Democrats and Republicans, and many of their proposed remedies have drawn support in both parties. One measure, championed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, is named the “21st Century Glass-Steagall Act” and aims to separate “traditional banks from riskier financial services.”

    Big-Bank Lobbyists

    “We should not accept a financial system that allows the biggest banks to emerge from a crisis in record-setting shape while ordinary Americans continue to struggle,” Warren said in a September speech marking the fifth anniversary of the turmoil. “And we should not accept a regulatory system that is so besieged by lobbyists for the big banks that it takes years to deliver rules, and then the rules that are delivered are often watered-down and ineffective.”

    Another proposal, sponsored by Senators Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, and David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, aims at the problem of large-scale bank failures without restoring Glass-Steagall. Instead, Brown and Vitter propose curbing the size of large banks by imposing a 15 percent capital requirement on them.

    Victory ‘Premature’

    “It is premature for anyone to take a victory lap when ‘too-big-to-fail’ policies are still alive and well,” Brown said in a statement last week. “Despite what some on Wall Street and in Washington may say, our work is not finished.”

    It’s not just lawmakers and policy groups who favor a new Glass-Steagall -- the idea has support from some Wall Street veterans, too. Sanford “Sandy” Weill, whose creation of Citigroup Inc. ushered in the era of U.S. bank conglomerates in the 1990s, has said ending Glass-Steagall’s prohibitions was a mistake.

    “What we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking,” Weill said in a 2012 interview on CNBC. “Have banks do something that’s not going to risk the taxpayer dollars, that’s not going to be too-big-to-fail.”

    Douglas Elliott, a former investment banker who is now a fellow at the Brookings Institution research group in Washington, said that in the years since Dodd-Frank was enacted, the Volcker rule has taken on outsized importance to anti-Wall Street activists.

    ‘Bad Stuff’

    “There seems to be this feeling that cutting off proprietary trading eliminates all of the bad stuff on Wall Street,” Elliott said in an interview. “I’m puzzled as to why so many chips have been placed on this rather than other issues progressives care about on financial reform.”

    Regulators released their first version of the Volcker rule in 2011, which made an attempt to define the two kinds of trades Congress said should be permitted: hedging and market-making. Those who wanted tougher curbs got a boost in early 2012 when New York-based JPMorgan acknowledged botched derivatives bets that eventually caused more than $6.2 billion in losses.

    Glass-Steagall advocates including Naylor of Public Citizen recognize the irony that the best argument for their side came from one of the banks fighting it. They have intensified their lobbying in the homestretch.

    “If the Volcker rule comes out weak, then we’re going to go all in on getting even more ambitious financial reform,” Naylor said.

    Administration Open

    While the Obama administration hasn’t endorsed a Glass-Steagall 2.0, it has signaled willingness to consider additional action if the current regulatory structure is deemed inadequate.

    “Earlier this year, I said if we could not with a straight face say we ended ‘too-big-to-fail,’ we would have to look at other options,” Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said in a speech last week in Washington. “Based on the totality of reforms we are putting in place, I believe we will meet that test, but to be clear, there is no precise point at which you can prove with certainty that we have done enough. If, in the future, we need to take further action, we will not hesitate.”

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-09/glass-steagall-fans-plan-new-assault-if-volcker-rule-deemed-weak.html

  5. I came on here expecting new posts, but all I see is...  I mean, is this for real?  Was someone really insulting Keep for the size of his...  Wow.  I'm 19, and even I find that to be completely irrelevant and immature.  Seriously?  I think what the problem is is that people don't want to hear what Keep has to say, because he thinks realistically, and honestly weighs the odds.  No one wants to come out of this a loser, but there isn't anything wrong with preparing yourself just in case things don't go your way.  

    Don't worry Keep is thick skinned.

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  6. Gamaray swears up and down that the funds and control of the funds were not turned over to Iraq. He is confusing thr protection of the funds from claims and lawsuits by the US as the funds not being turned over a couple years ago as the links I provided explained. Even showed the SIGIR report talking about it being turned over. Not sure what he isnt understanding!

    BTW.....Im back!!! Made it in a couple days ago!!!

    So now you are in Florida.....right?  Or were you on vacation?  I have been a sporadic viewer here on DV lately.  

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