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In my 11 years on this investment, I have never seen 10 consecutive days with NO daily auctions.

All public employees salaries have to be paid by 3/31

There’s an article talking about printing currency Not issuing currency. ( maybe they are referring to LD notes)

 

Go RV

Go asap..... In April

 

Thanks Ron.!
 

 

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28 minutes ago, Laid Back said:

In my 11 years on this investment, I have never seen 10 consecutive days with NO daily auctions.

All public employees salaries have to be paid by 3/31

There’s an article talking about printing currency Not issuing currency. ( maybe they are referring to LD notes)

 

Go RV

Go asap..... In April

 

Thanks Ron.!
 

 

Do you still feel like the Iraq New Year falls on April 1st? 

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17 minutes ago, Laid Back said:

In my 11 years on this investment, I have never seen 10 consecutive days with NO daily auctions.

All public employees salaries have to be paid by 3/31

There’s an article talking about printing currency Not issuing currency. ( maybe they are referring to LD notes)

 

Go RV

Go asap..... In April

 

Thanks Ron.!
 

 


Does anyone know what is the longest they have stopped the auctions in the past and what were the circumstances that stopped them? 

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1 hour ago, Jaygo said:

Do you still feel like the Iraq New Year falls on April 1st? 

I read an article talking about paying all public employees before the end of the year 3/31/2020. Looks like the new fiscal year falls on April 1st.

 

1 hour ago, Half Crazy Runner said:


Does anyone know what is the longest they have stopped the auctions in the past and what were the circumstances that stopped them? 

No more than a week, because of holidays.

 

Go RV

Go asap

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19 minutes ago, Laid Back said:

I read an article talking about paying all public employees before the end of the year 3/31/2020. Looks like the new fiscal year falls on April 1st.

 

No more than a week, because of holidays.

 

Go RV

Go asap


Thank you Laid Back! Wow, things are very interesting indeed...🤔

Stay healthy! 👍🏻👍🏻

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2 hours ago, Laid Back said:

In my 11 years on this investment, I have never seen 10 consecutive days with NO daily auctions.

All public employees salaries have to be paid by 3/31

There’s an article talking about printing currency Not issuing currency. ( maybe they are referring to LD notes)

 

Go RV

Go asap..... In April

 

Thanks Ron.!
 

 

Its now.......or....... I don't know when my brother. 

The current scenario is ripe for an RV :cigar:

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4 minutes ago, Half Crazy Runner said:


Thank you Laid Back! Wow, things are very interesting indeed...🤔

Stay healthy! 👍🏻👍🏻

Agreed HCR,

Things are very interesting 🤔 

Stay healthy 😷

3 minutes ago, Wiljor said:

Its now.......or....... I don't know when my brother. 

The current scenario is ripe for an RV :cigar:

My brother, 

You got that right, the current scenario is ripe for an RV💰💵👍🏼😊

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What’s in store for the Iraqi economy?

By Hassan Jivraj

30/3/2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 (a.k.a. coronavirus) and sliding global oil prices will push Iraq into a deep financial crisis. These challenges come as Baghdad continues to deal with political uncertainty, popular discontent, and a struggling economy. Lacking economic diversification, foreign investment, and transparency, Iraq has failed to recover from the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation in 2003, as well as the more recent conflict against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS).

Beyond Iraq’s borders, brinkmanship between the U.S. and Iran has been heating up since the Trump administration withdrew Washington from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018. Iraq finds itself stuck in the middle of the U.S. and Iran’s wargames. The assassination of Iran’s Major General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in Bagdad at the beginning of this year highlighted the extent to which Iraq is vulnerable to escalating tensions between America and the Islamic Republic.


Credit crunch in Baghdad

Due to the failure of OPEC+ to reach a renewal agreement in March 2020, the subsequent Saudi-Russian price war, and COVID-19’s impact on the international economy, global oil prices have fallen to a 17-year low. Rystad Energy, an Oslo-based energy research house, suggest that a barrel of oil could fall as low as $10.

To combat further a price drop, OPEC opened talks with energy producers in Texas and US shale producers in mid-March to negotiate a coordinated response. Yet, thus far, a deal has yet to be reached.

Of all the OPEC members, Iraq, which is the second biggest producer after Saudi Arabia, has been hit hard by the fall in the so-called black gold. Around 95 percent of the sovereign’s income comes from oil. Furthermore, oil accounts for nearly 99 percent of Iraq’s exports, with around 20 percent going to China.

The 2020 draft budget, which has yet to be approved, stands at roughly $135 billion with a deficit of around USD 40 billion. However, the budget assumed an oil price of $56 per barrel.

Last week Brent Crude was trading at around $29 per barrel. The new adjusted price means that Baghdad’s net income would decline by 65 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year. Officially, a large proportion of the budget pays Iraq’s seven million public sector employees. Lower prices mean that Iraq would run a monthly deficit of $4 billion just to pay public sector salaries and keep the government running.

Iraq’s oil minister has reportedly called on other OPEC members to hold an emergency meeting to address falling oil prices. However, this has not yielded results.

Meanwhile to cover the deficit, Iraq is likely draw upon its foreign exchange reserves, estimated to be worth $50 to 60 billion. This could cover imports of subsided items like rice and cooking oil.

In an effort to cut expenses, Baghdad has reportedly reached out to international oil companies, mainly operating in southern Iraq, to reduce the budgets of developing oilfields by 30 percent. Foreign oil companies in Iraq develop oilfields under a service contract and are paid a fixed fee in US dollars.

The sovereign will also likely seek external financing in international credit markets. However, given current conditions in emerging market bond markets, this may be difficult to achieve. Iraq last sold its second-ever independent Eurobond in August 2017. Prior to that Eurobond, Iraq previously sold bonds under a USAID guarantee.

Baghdad will likely settle for bank loans from international financial institutions in the U.S., although this will be expensive due to the sovereign credit risk exposure. Moody’s recently noted the credit ratings of oil exporting nations will worsen due to lower oil prices and depleted coffers. Other rating agencies like S&P are likely to follow suit and downgrade Iraq’s sovereign credit rating.

The alternative is to seek International Monetary Fund (IMF) and/or World Bank aid via a reform program. In July 2016, Iraq received a three-year $5.34 billion loan to help rebuild the economy after the previous oil crash in 2014 and the post ISIS reconstruction.

A new IMF facility, however, only comes in exchange for painful and deeply unpopular reforms like subsidy reduction. In the current political climate, such reforms would be difficult to impose on Iraq’s society, and mainstream political parties would not be willing to impose austerity.


Political and financial crises

Iraq is facing serious political challenges. Widespread street protests swept the country in early October 2019. Yet the key difference between the current protests and others is that a large proportion of demonstrators consist of Iraq’s Shi’a citizens, who constitute the majority of the country’s population.

These protestors’ demands include more employment opportunities, better services, constitutional reform, transparency, an end to corruption and far less Iranian influence in their country.

Following the 2018 elections, the subsequent government failed to deliver. The then-Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi resigned in November 2019.

After months of delay, the new Prime Minister-Designate Adnan al Zurfi will find it difficult to form a new administration. He has until the middle of April to form a cabinet. The former governor of Najaf, who also holds US citizenship, has come under criticism from pro-Iranian parliamentarians who see him as the American nominee. He will be challenged to address Iraq’s economic challenges in any effective manner.

Coronavirus, a major public health crisis

On top of Iraq’s major political and economic crisis, the country has to address the coronavirus crisis. Neighboring Iran, Iraq is particularly vulnerable to this disease not only due to geographical factors but countless other ones too from political instability to a failure of the state to serve its citizens.

As of March 30, Iraq officially had 547 coronavirus cases and 42 deaths. The country’s healthcare sector lacks necessary infrastructure to deal with too many more COVID-19 cases. The odds are good that Baghdad will request assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO) or other international entities.

In an effort to contain coronavirus, Iraqi authorities introduced a curfew which coincided with the commemoration of the death of the seventh Shi’a imam. Thousands of pilgrims defied the ban. By now, the government has shutdown all religious sites, roads between cities, and halted all religious tourism. The virus outbreak will have a negative impact on Iraq’s economy, particularly in non-oil sectors like religious tourism, especially from Iran. Furthermore, all flights between Iraq and Iran have been suspended.

Caught between Washington and Tehran

Iraq finds itself in the middle of Washington and Tehran’s standoff. Since the disbanding of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist regime, Iran has gained a strong foothold in Iraqi politics. Tehran has also extended its influence in economic, security and cultural affairs. In Washington’s eyes, Iran has consistently used Iraq to bypass U.S. sanctions to provide a lifeline to the Iranian economy. Iraqi-Iranian bilateral trade was about $12 billion in 2018.

Baghdad and Tehran both hope to increase this figure to $20 billion by 2021. As well as being a key destination for Iranian goods, Iraq also relies on its electricity and gas and many Iraqis visit Iran for medical tourism.

So far, Washington has provided waivers for Iranian electricity and gas to Iraq. However, an escalation in U.S.-Iran tensions, may prompt the leadership in Washington to end this concession. The U.S. has also threatened to place sanctions on Iraq after the country’s lawmakers in Baghdad demanded that US troops leave the country following the Soleimani killing. Iraqi individuals and companies trading with Iran and its entities, have also been subject to U.S. sanctions.

As Iraq’s economic situation deteriorates and the COVID-19 outbreak worsens, the U.S. will likely wait to see what kind of administration Adnan al Zurfi will form. To be sure, it’s far too early to know whether or not he can address Iraq’s serious challenges. Regardless of how he leads in Baghdad, the Americans may need to provide Iraq a financial lifeline 17 years after invading the country.

 

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 Thanks for all your comments - Be Blessed everyone...! :twothumbs: RON 

 

9 hours ago, Half Crazy Runner said:

Woo-hoo!  Thanks again Ron!!

 

10 hours ago, nannab said:

Good morning Ron :D

 

8 hours ago, Laid Back said:

Thanks Ron.!

In my 11 years on this investment, I have never seen 10 consecutive days with NO daily auctions. All public employees salaries have to be paid by 3/31. There’s an article talking about printing currency Not issuing currency. ( maybe they are referring to LD notes)

 

3 hours ago, WheresmyRV? said:

Ron thank you for reporting this every day and all others that has been contributing here.  Hopefully our time is near for this to pop!:praying:

 

1 hour ago, NoviceInvestor said:

Thanks Ronscarpa- Interesting times. 

Every other country is delivering either a stimulus package or some sort of assistance for their citizens and businesses to help and assist them during this Pandemic but good old Iraq seems to  still muddle on and on.. JMO

 

49 minutes ago, pacmen said:

On the Serious Side....Thanks Ron You'll on a Roll.

 

40 minutes ago, ChuckFinley said:

Thanks Ron and no auctions is for sure good news.  

 

:tiphat: You're all great...!

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Just doing my job boss.  We are all looking trying to figure out what the plan is and when is it going to execute.  I appreciate your posts every day.  All the best to you Sir!!

 

BTW, how are you doing in Vegas.  This CV has got to be clobbering the Convention Busiess 

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Iraq is circling the drain . . . pretty :soon:, and :soon: is NOT going to be an Iraqi  :soon: but an Honest to Goodness Funky Western Civilization a couple more times circling that drain all we're going to hear is a massive sucking sound as the BIG SWIRLY swallows IRAQ whole - SOON- 

 

DAMN, I MEAN DAMN ! ! ! ! WTF 

 

Y'all better get your poop in a group and fast

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WOWZERS!!!

 

NO CORRUPT WEEKLY BICRAQI IRAQI DAILY CURRENCY AUCTION TODAY, TUESDAY MARCH 31, 2020!!!

 

THE LAST ONE WAS ON MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2020!!!

 

FIFTEEN (15) DAZE AGO!!!

 

YYYEEEAAAHHH BBBAAABBBYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

GO MOOLA NOVA!

:pirateship:

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11 hours ago, Pitcher said:

Just doing my job boss.  We are all looking trying to figure out what the plan is and when is it going to execute.  I appreciate your posts every day.  All the best to you Sir!!

BTW, how are you doing in Vegas.  This CV has got to be clobbering the Convention Business..! 

 

Thanks Pitcher ... the Las Vegas Strip is a Ghost Town. All the casinos are closed and the lights are turned off. An amazing site.

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