Thursday, August 1, 2024
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Economist Explains The Objectives Of Monetary Policy: Reducing Unemployment And Achieving Stability Of The Local Currency, 1 AUGUST
Posted On2024-07-30 By Sotaliraq Economic researcher Diaa Al-Mohsen explained the objectives of monetary policy in the country, explaining that it reduces unemployment rates and achieves stability for the local currency against foreign currencies.
Al Mohsen said, “Monetary policy is adopted to control the profit rate paid for short-term borrowing, to allow for a reduction in inflation rates or interest rates, ensuring price stability and high confidence in the value and stability of the local currency.” He noted that “monetary policy has other objectives, the most important of which may be achieving GDP stability and reducing unemployment rates.”
Al Mohsen added that “monetary policy aims to achieve stability of the local currency against foreign currencies, as the monetary authority is responsible for implementing monetary policy, which includes two types of policies that differ from each other. The first is called an expansionary policy, as it works to reduce interest rates imposed on loans.
Here, this mechanism works to increase demand for loans for investment purposes, which results in increased demand for investment goods and increased demand for goods and commodities.” He pointed out that “this mechanism works to increase demand for labor for the purpose of expanding production to meet the growing demand, as we notice here the consumer’s lack of interest in keeping cash. ‘
This policy ensures the decline of the local currency against foreign currencies, and then the foreign investor can put his money in to buy local goods at a lower price than usual, which increases demand for these goods, which increases the accelerating multiplier, which results in an increase in wages and a decrease in unemployment rates.”
“The other policy is the opposite of the first, and we call it a contractionary policy. Here, the monetary authority works to raise interest rates to withdraw the largest amount of local currency available in the market.
When interest rates are high, we find that consumers are less willing to buy goods and services. On the other hand, we find that consumers are more willing to save because interest rates are rewarding. ‘
However, this negatively affects investment, due to the high interest rates imposed on loans, which results in reducing opportunities for increased production and increasing unemployment rates. We also notice that investors are not willing to buy locally produced goods because their prices are high compared to their foreign counterparts,” Al Mohsen added.
He continued, “Monetary policy is a necessity undertaken by the monetary authority, in order to maintain the stability of the monetary system. The above is also fundamentally linked to the ability of the monetary authority to monitor the market in the cases of expansion and contraction. It is also necessary to remember the necessity of having a developed financial market.”
The problems of the banking sector and its urgent need for radical reforms in the monetary and supervisory policy of the Central Bank, and the creation of effective mechanisms to reduce corruption and ensure transparency in the management of public funds to achieve real and sustainable economic development in Iraq, are highlighted. With the ongoing dollar crisis and the absence of effective solutions, there must be a real need to establish a monetary policy that establishes the foundation for creating economic stability while preserving the country’s interests and putting an end to the US Federal Reserve’s sanctions against Iraqi banks. LINK
A Parliamentarian Reveals Gold Smuggling In An “Innovative” Way.. What Is Its Relation To The Rise Of The Dollar?, 1 August
Economy News – Baghdad Member of Parliament, Alia Nassif, revealed today, Wednesday, innovative gold smuggling operations, while she mentioned the story of the death of Qarun.
Nassif said in a post on the Aks platform, followed by “Al-Eqtisad News”, that “after more than 5,000 years since the death of Qarun, a new Qarun is born, to become the crocodile of corruption in Iraq,” adding: “In short, there is currently an innovative method to destroy the Iraqi economy, which is to buy gold (local and imported), melt it, turn it into ingots, and smuggle it abroad!”
She continued: “I call on the Central Bank, the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Office, the Organized Crime Directorate, the Federal Integrity Commission, and all regulatory agencies to investigate the sources of funds transferred through the currency sales window to purchase gold and precious metals during 2024, and to verify the validity of the procedures in customs and the Central Agency for Standardization and Quality Control, and to verify the sales operations in the markets and who are the beneficiaries of buying gold.”
She pointed out that "the reason for the increase in dollar sales is the import of large quantities of gold (which are not sold in the markets), but are remelted and smuggled out of Iraq, taking advantage of the difference between the official and parallel exchange rates, in addition to financing suspicious operations and giving legitimacy to money coming through financial corruption and extortion." 2024/07/31 - https://economy-news.net/content.php?id=45778
MP: The Iraqi Banking Sector Is Being Executed In Favor Of Arab Banks, 1 AUGUST
Policy , 07/31/2024 10:38 , Number of readings: 168 Baghdad - Iraq Today: MP Alia Nassif Jassim expressed her dissatisfaction with the current situation of Iraqi banks, considering that there is an “execution” of these banks.
The MP wrote in a recent post on the X platform, “This is how Iraqi banks are being executed! A license was granted to the Jordanian Arab Bank and the Emirates Union Bank to work in #Iraq and they will start their work at the beginning of next September alongside the National Bank
The license will also be granted to two banks (Kuwaiti and Qatari), while many Iraqi banks continue to stop and more of them will stop due to the management of the Central Bank of Iraq, which did not. address the problem during the past period, but rather worked to enter them into contracts with K2 and pay them money without result!
The banking sector is being punished for mistakes made in previous years during which it was under the supervision of the same current management of the Central Bank, so why was this management not punished for failure to fulfill its duty to supervise the work of these banks?”
These statements come at a time when the banking sector in Iraq is witnessing major challenges, with increasing criticism of the Central Bank's management. LINK
Failure of the Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) BY MNT GOAT, 1 AUGUST
Failure of the Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX)
I encourage my readers to go read the article titled “CORRUPTION AND FAVORITISM WEAKEN THE IRAQI STOCK EXCHANGE: NEGLECTED LAWS AND A BITTER REALITY”
Many joint-stock companies and banks participating in the Iraq Stock Exchange have shown their failure to submit their final financial statements for the year 2023, reflecting a state of chaos and indifference towards the laws regulating the work of the Iraq Stock Exchange.
The market suffers from a continuous disregard for the legal articles regulating the relationship between companies and the market, as Article 14 obliges listed companies to prepare and publish periodic financial reports that include balance sheets and profit and loss accounts, in addition to detailed annual reports.
However, the reality indicates that many companies blatantly ignore this article, leading to a significant lack of transparency and information available to investors.
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