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Cutebwoy: Iraqi Dinar revaluation postponed by Central Bank for 5 years says MP Noura al-Bajari...OLD ARTICLE 2014
Oct 29, 2014
A member of the Parliamentary Economic and Investment Commission, MP Noura al-Bajari.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A member of the Parliamentary Economic and Investment Commission, MP Noura al-Bajari, confirmed on Wednesday that the initiative to revalue and delete zeros from the Iraqi Dinar is ready for implementation by the Central Bank although it will be delayed by five years given the political and security situation of Iraq.
In an interview with IraqiNews.com al-Bajari said “The policy to delete zeros from the Iraqi currency is ready to be executed by the Central Bank, however, its implementation will be delayed by 5 years on the basis of the extreme security and political situation of the country.”
Al-Bajari said that the head of the Central Bank of Iraq had previously said that this policy from parliament was accepted and that the zeros will be deleted from the Iraqi currency in the next 5 years.
China and Russia ditch dollar in move toward 'financial alliance'
DIMITRI SIMES, August 6, 2020 17:29 JST
MOSCOW -- Russia and China are partnering to reduce their dependence on the dollar -- a development some experts say could lead to a "financial alliance" between them.
In the first quarter of 2020, the dollar's share of trade between Russia and China fell below 50% for the first time on record, according to recent data from Russia's Central Bank and Federal Customs Service.
The greenback was used for only 46% of settlements between the two countries. At the same time, the euro made up an all-time high of 30%, while their national currencies accounted for 24%, also a new high.
Russia and China have drastically cut their use of the dollar in bilateral trade over the past several years. As late as 2015, approximately 90% of bilateral transactions were conducted in dollars. Following the outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war and a concerted push by both Moscow and Beijing to move away from the dollar, however, the figure had dropped to 51% by 2019.
Alexey Maslov, director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the Nikkei Asian Review that the Russia-China "dedollarization" was approaching a "breakthrough moment" that could elevate their relationship to a de facto alliance
"The collaboration between Russia and China in the financial sphere tells us that they are finally finding the parameters for a new alliance with each other," he said. "Many expected that this would be a military alliance or a trading alliance, but now the alliance is moving more in the banking and financial direction, and that is what can guarantee independence for both countries."
Dedollarization has been a priority for Russia and China since 2014, when they began expanding economic cooperation following Moscow's estrangement from the West over its annexation of Crimea. Replacing the dollar in trade settlements became a necessity to sidestep U.S. sanctions against Russia.
"Any wire transaction that takes place in the world involving U.S. dollars is at some point cleared through a U.S. bank," explained Dmitry Dolgin, ING Bank's chief economist for Russia. "That means that the U.S. government can tell that bank to freeze certain transactions."
The process gained further momentum after the Donald Trump administration imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods. Whereas previously Moscow had taken the initiative on dedollarization, Beijing came to view it as critical, too.
"Only very recently did the Chinese state and major economic entities begin to feel that they might end up in a similar situation as our Russian counterparts: being the target of the sanctions and potentially even getting shut out of the SWIFT system," said Zhang Xin, a research fellow at the Center for Russian Studies at Shanghai's East China Normal University.
In 2014, Russia and China signed a three-year currency swap deal worth 150 billion yuan ($24.5 billion). The agreement enabled each country to gain access to the other's currency without having to purchase it on the foreign exchange market. The deal was extended for three years in 2017.
Another milestone came during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia in June 2019. Moscow and Beijing struck a deal to replace the dollar with national currencies for international settlements between them. The arrangement also called for the two sides to develop alternative payment mechanisms to the U.S.-dominated SWIFT network for conducting trade in rubles and yuan.
Beyond trading in national currencies, Russia has been rapidly accumulating yuan reserves at the expense of the dollar. In early 2019, Russia's central bank revealed that it had slashed its dollar holdings by $101 billion -- over half of its existing dollar assets. One of the biggest beneficiaries of this move was the yuan, which saw its share of Russia's foreign exchange reserves jump from 5% to 15% after the central bank invested $44 billion into the Chinese currency.
As a result of the shift, Russia acquired a quarter of the world's yuan reserves.
Earlier this year, the Kremlin granted permission to Russia's sovereign wealth fund to begin investing in yuan and Chinese state bonds.
Russia's push to accumulate yuan is not just about diversifying its foreign exchange reserves, Maslov explained. Moscow also wants to encourage Beijing to become more assertive in challenging Washington's global economic leadership.
"Russia has a considerably more decisive position toward the United States [than China does]," Maslov said. "Russia is used to fighting, it does not hold negotiations. One way for Russia to make China's position more decisive, more willing to fight is to show that it supports Beijing in the financial sphere."
Dethroning the dollar, however, will not be easy.
Jeffery Frankel, an economist at Harvard University, told Nikkei that the dollar enjoys three major advantages: the ability to maintain its value in the form of limited inflation and depreciation, the sheer size of the American domestic economy, and the United States having financial markets that are deep, liquid and open. So far, he argued, no rival currency has shown itself capable of outperforming the dollar on all three counts.
Yet Frankel also warned that while the dollar's position is secure for now, spiraling debts and an overly aggressive sanctions policy could erode its supremacy in the long run.
"Sanctions are a very powerful instrument for the United States, but like any tool, you run the risk that others will start looking for alternatives if you overdo them," he said. "I think it would be foolish to assume that it's written in stone that the dollar will forever be unchallenged as the number one international currency."
"Q Clock Points to Friday 7th August" by Sierra (NZ) - 8.7.20
Entry Submitted by Sierra (NZ) at 3:47 AM EDT on August 7, 2020
This tweet from Cowboyw2b indicates that Friday 7th August is an important marker on the Q clock...
https://twitter.com/ToddWal47945939/status/1291580004296347650
I didn’t look at the Clock, but that is interesting!
With all the “booms” this week, Q44 would be fitting!
— Time4U2Know (@Time4U2Know) August 7, 2020
'Turns out 11:11 and 12:21 line up with the :44 and Friday' (Cowboyw2b tweet)
I don't understand much about the Q clock apart from the fact that when a diagonal line runs through it, there are four important points highlighted. In this case, the four points are 11:11, 12:21, :44 and 08:07.
Here is Q drop number 44 from 2nd November 2017 (the first Q drop was 28th October 2017)...
https://twitter.com/Datasinc/status/1291609021124755459
Turns out 11.11 and 12.21 line up with the :44 mark and Friday. pic.twitter.com/Mb9LycitFr
— Cowboyw2b (@ToddWal47945939) August 7, 2020
'Before POTUS departs on Friday he will be sending an important message via Twitter. God bless.'
Q drop 44 was written before Q began signing off each drop with Q.
The number 44 also refers to Obama - 44th President of USA. President Trump is 45th President. This could be a reference to OBAMAGATE beginning on Friday 7th August.
11:11 is a spiritual portal. And 21:12 connects to 21st December 2012 - the date humanity was supposed to ascend. However a consensus agreed that Ascension would be postponed to allow more people to ascend.
So three important dates and one important number - all lining up on the Q clock.
Watch this space.
Where We Go One We Go All.
Love and Light
Sierra (NZ)
https://inteldinarchronicles.blogspot.com/2020/08/q-clock-points-to-friday-7th-august-by.html
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Patriot Intel Report
PIR 08 07 20
All markets are in the red today. Was it because Trump has said he has powerful enemies and we might not see him for awhile?
Trump lowered drug prices and the Pharmaceuticals companies are the most powerful industry there is.
Something is about to happen. We are about to enter the storm. It’s going to be intense