News, Rumors and Opinions Sunday 8-16-2026
Ariel: We are on the Mark Ladies and Gentlemen
8-16-2026
We Are On The Mark Ladies & Gentlemen:
1st. Step” Removing 3 Zeros
Doesn’t make you any money.
Doesn’t give purchasing power to citizens.
Doesn’t benefit anyone outside of Iraq.
2nd. Step Currency Revaluation
Gives the Iraqi Citizens purchasing power.
Gives IQD investors a 1:1/3:1 upward value and massive (ROI).
Gives IQD holders outside of Iraq a opportunity to exchange.
Both of these things can happen in steps or occur simultaneously.
The Good News Is This
You Have Officially Heard On Record A Iraqi Official Announce This
Do you see how close we are to finally seeing our long term investment finally making it’s break for the international Forex Market?
Majeed KSA: Official News : Iraq's Minister of Communications, Mustafa Sand, confirms the issuance of a decision to change the currency and remove zeros from it.
Source(s):
• https://x.com/Prolotario1/status/2088811290995065324
https://dinarchronicles.com/2026/08/16/prolotario-we-are-on-the-mark-ladies-and-gentlemen/
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Courtesy of Dinar Guru: https://www.dinarguru.com/
Frank26 Question: "When the rate happens, does the rate have to be on the Forex for us to cash in?" No, it doesn't have to be, but it will be. The moment the CBI releases a new exchange rate, boom, it's sent out digitally to every counter site...
Wolverine Lots of movement in Reno I know whales traveling to Reno to get paid and some some whales have got paid. These are AAA whales (high level).
Militia Man Article "IRAQ HOLDS 174.6 TONS OF GOLD : ITS LATEST DATA DATES BACK TO 2025". Iraq’s gold position is solid...174.6 tons — third in the Arab world and 28th globally — making up roughly 23% of total reserves...That gold holding is one supporting element...When you stack it with the other pieces — non-oil revenue growth, ASYCUDA and customs formalization, the electronic-payments push, banking compliance...energy contracts, and now concrete WTO technical progress — the overall architecture looks more coherent. A managed REER-style adjustment still sits inside that architecture...Those are the same foundations that make a coordinated rate move more feasible when the CBI and the gatekeepers judge the timing is right.
Gold Breakout! The Gold Reserve Race Has Started
Kinesis Money: 8-15-2026
In this week’s Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire details how the August gold breakout caught mainstream analysts off guard, as central banks and sovereign buyers accelerate their shift away from dollar debt and into physical gold at a new pace.
As Shanghai silver premiums hit 13% and Chinese demand surges back into the market, the precious metals expert outlines why both metals remain deeply attractive — and why the window to act ahead of a structural repricing is narrowing.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:42 Why the August gold breakout was not about headlines, and what really drove it
06:53 Central banks reducing dollar holdings in favour of physical gold
11:08 How Project Enbridge and the yuan are building a non-dollar settlement system
16:57 Why London's tokenised gold push is a structural mistake
20:07 JP Morgan's strategy: concede the gold story publicly, contain it synthetically
25:18 Short-term chart footprints and where institutional support is building
33:39 Silver's breakout: what the premiums and ETF flows are signalling
37:57 Why silver could double from current levels into year end