Walkingstick
[Iraqi bank friend Aki update]
The CBI board of directors decided...to hold meeting with only all of their executives of all their banks...These two or three meeting are going on... This is on the subject of the monetary reform, lower notes, exchange rate, budget ... These next few days are going to be very silent. The press will not cover
it. No one will know anything about it. They will suppress this information...This silence is normal and to be expected right now. [Aki] has seen this quietness before when the CBI was getting ready to make a major move.Walkingstick
Sudani rewrote the contracts and recalculated them in accordance with the rate in the budget...They've been running a budget with the new exchange rate and a budget with the old exchange rate...
[Iraqi bank friend Aki update]
AKI: It's about time.
WAlKINGSTICK: What he's telling us is it's about time to release the budget and the new exchange rate with the lower notes. That's what he meant.
The ATM machines, they're all poised like centurions that are standing there. These ATMs are guarding the lower notes. It's time for all of this to come out now. It's just the budget we are waiting for. We're not waiting for any laws, we're not waiting for any new procedures.