November Update (11/5/14)







The article clearly states that:

  2. The deletion of the zeros doesn’t mean in any way an improvement in the exchange rate or in the Iraqi citizen’s income. That would be a lop too, folks.
  3. This isn’t being done to fix their economic problems. If they could fix their economic problems by removing zeros then every country would do it. While that sounds sooo obvious it’s amazing how many dinarians can’t seem to comprehend the fact that you can’t revalue your way into prosperity.
  4. The only goal is to facilitate buying and selling. “Facilitate” means it will be easier, which is what a redenomination (lop) does. It makes cash transactions and accounting easier. They go on to say that they hope that this will provide a psychological boost to use a currency with a higher value, even if there’s no true increase in purchasing power.

The article concludes with a reference to the dinar returning to its glorious past (how many times have we heard gurus talking about the dinar returning to its glorious past through a revaluation?), but that this is “false joy, nothing else”. In other words, the redenomination will give the people a good feeling, but it’s only a feeling. There’s no true increase.

Read the article here.

Another article getting a lot of attention was this one that says the initiative to revalue and delete zeros from the Iraqi Dinar will be delayed for five years because of the political and security situation in Iraq. Of course there are some who will point to the word “revalue” and insist that it’s not a redenomination or “lop” that they’re talking about but an increase in purchasing power from a revaluation. But as many of us can attest, you have to go by the description of the process and not the particular verbiage resulting from the translation of Arabic into English. The process they’ve been talking about for at least four years is a typical redenomination that you can read about in any financial or investment dictionary. You don’t delete zeros, issue new currency, and remove the old currency from circulation in a revaluation. Even if they botch the translation the description tells you very clearly what they intend to do.

Removing Three Zeros – Brad, Charlie, and Michael Teadt do the perp walk (Sept. 2012)

But the good news from October in my opinion was the sentencing of Brad Huebner and Charlie Emmenecker from the BH Group. Brad got seven years and Charlie got three for dinar fraud and related charges. It seems there is at least some justice in this world. Apparently Brad is still in denial, stating that “one day in the near future the Iraqi government would revalue its currency and everyone’s investment would pay off”. Unbelievable! Their partner in crime Rudy Coenen received a five year sentence back in September for his role in the ruse. Now if we can just get the justice department to follow up with a dozen or so more indictments.