My Personal Opinion 01/14/07
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I made this little chart in Excel the other day just to see where Iraq and other countries currency ranked against the US dollar. I tool all the figures from yahoo finance currency converter and all the banknote denominations from wikipedia. Neither of the two, the most reliable of sources, but hey, it did what I was looking for.
My personal opinion is that the dinar cannot and will not RV until lower denominations are circulated. Look at the countries listed and their value against the dollar. There are only 3 worth more than the dollar, a couple are very close to par, and more that are very, very far from it. Notice the denominations in circulation, it seems that the countries with the smaller denoms have a closer par.
"Hey man, you got change for 25 thousand?" Its just not realistic to me to RV without smaller notes. I dont care how much oil they have. Bash me if you must.
Never Thought Of This.........
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Originally Posted by
bultn
The easiest way to solve this problem would be a 1:1 reval. Then they could use USD for change until they get the lower denoms out.
Or, if the lower denoms really exist, they could distribute the 10K handout using only them.
Just my 2 cents
I bet they would rather use their own. But, this is a good thought. Any comments on this. Seems that it would work just fine at a 1:1 rate.
Good Pam As Well.............
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Originally Posted by
karinc
But they don't NEED to change them, at least not immediately. The bigger notes will still have their value. They can use the money they have now in stores (there ARE smaller bills than the 25K) and get CHANGE - so I see it as that the banks would distribute the smaller denoms to all shops etc first...
Then after a few days people could go and change the bigger notes if they want.
What I mean is that the RV can (in my opinion must) come before the smaller denoms or there would be a lot of speculation. Also, there is no problem in that since the existing denoms will still be in use ALSO.
/K
If would be a easier way to distibute the smaller denoms. This would in turn keep the Iraqi's from lining up at the banks waiting for a IED. Plus this would distribute them much faster. Good thought Karnic. I agree with it. Just have to wait it out to see.