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Iraq Economic News and Points To Ponder Late Thursday Evening 10-8-26

"A Hasty Decision That Harmed The Citizen," MP Walaa Al-Jizani Said: "Raising The Dollar Exchange Rate Has Had Negative Effects On The Street, And Parliament Is Moving To Discuss Its Repercussions"

Baghdad - One News - 10/07/2026   Deputy Walaa Al-Jizani, Vice President of the Badr parliamentary bloc, described the government’s decision to raise the dollar exchange rate as “hasty,” stressing that its repercussions have negatively affected the public and harmed citizens.  

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Iraq Economic News and Points To Ponder Thursday Evening 10-8-26

CBI Tells Lawmakers New Dollar Rate Is Final

2026-10-08  Shafaq News- Baghdad   Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) governor Nizar Hussein has informed parliament's Finance Committee that the new official exchange rate of 1,500 dinars to the dollar is fixed and cannot be changed, a parliamentary source told Shafaq News on Thursday.  Hussein told committee members that changing the rate in the budget law would mean redrawing every table and line item in the draft, which was built on 1,500 dinars to the dollar, the source said.

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Should Paper Checks Be Abolished Like The Penny?

Should Paper Checks Be Abolished Like The Penny?

Good Partner  Tue, September 8, 2026 Jay L. Zagorsky

While Americans are writing fewer checks, they haven't abandoned this means of payment.

Germany is getting rid of paper checks at the end of 2027. Australia is bidding them farewell by 2030. U.S. President Donald Trump followed up his order killing off the penny with an executive order stopping check writing by the federal government.

Should the U.S. follow these other countries and broadly eliminate the ability to write checks?

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BRICS Not Opposed To the US Dollar, Confirms Diplomat

BRICS Not Opposed To the US Dollar, Confirms Diplomat

Vinod Dsouza   September 30, 2026       BRICSBusiness

Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov confirmed at the NDTV Defense Summit that the BRICS alliance is not opposed to the US dollar. He stressed that no member nation has spoken in an anti-Western tone at the September summit in India. Member countries have also not promoted any form of anti-Western agenda to push policies, he said.

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Historic Gold Rush Reprices Global Debt

Historic Gold Rush Reprices Global Debt

Kinesis Money:  10-8-2026

In this week's Live from the Vault, Andrew Maguire details how central banks swapping dollars for physical gold at an unrivalled pace are quietly forcing a repricing of global debt — and why this gold rush marks something far bigger than a market rally.

As the Fed remains the last major institution still sitting on gold valued at a fraction of its true market price, Andrew outlines why he sees this gold rush not as a rally, but as the opening chapter of a fundamental restructuring of the monetary order

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Iraq Economic News and Points To Ponder Thursday Afternoon 10-8-26

Parliamentary Finance: The Government Received Debts Of About 210 Trillion Dinars

Money and business  Economy News _ Baghdad   A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Yousef al-Kalabi, on Thursday, that the Iraqi government has received a difficult financial situation in light of the accumulation of debt and the decline in oil revenues.

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