"RV UPDATE" BY GOLDILOCKS, 7 FEB

 Goldilocks and Seeds of Wisdom

BAGHDAD, Feb 4 (Reuters) – “Iraq has banned eight local commercial banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, taking action to reduce fraud, money laundering and other illegal uses of U.S. currency days after a visit by a top U.S. Treasury official.”

The Iraqi Banks have been banned from accessing the Iraqi Central Bank’s daily dollar auction.

The daily dollar auction has become a way of smuggling dollars for Iran, and this is expected to restrain much of those activities.

This is part of the economic and financial reforms Iraq is going through to meet International Banking Standards and achieve International connectivity.

As you can see, Iraq has begun implementing some of their economic reforms as promised.

Reuters

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“A casual search through digests and the reading of case head- notes may leave the searcher with the vague impression that the outbreak of war has some peculiar effect upon contracts, not to be  accounted for by any of the well established principles of contract law.

Thus, it is frequently said that war suspends contracts and that the cessation of war revives the same.

On the other hand, it is stated elsewhere in no less positive terms that war dissolves and abrogates all contracts between subjects of belligerent nations.

An attempt will here be made to show that cases arising upon contracts affected by war may in fact be classified by an application of the broad principles of the common law relating to contracts.”

We have said in this room a few times before that history has shown us that exchange rates change during wartime or soon after.

Price distortions create contract breaches between nations and even the people within the banking system. These distortions make it difficult for obligations to be met between all parties.

As we continue to involve ourselves in wars, the likelihood of more distortions will create a need to revalue assets and their real values when this is done.

This is a day by day situation, and changes can come at a moment’s notice. It is important that we stay alert going forward for these changes.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1111481

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