Munny's Models are a load of s**t! No one really cares about your charts no one takes notice! save your time and effort!
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Bahrains exchange rate is 1:$2.7, Oman is 1:$2.6, and Jordan's is 1:$1.4. Saudi Arabias, Quatar, and UAE are all at approximately 1:.27 USD. Are those "within 4%" of each other??? In reality the reverse is true. A high overnight re-val would cause chaos and disrupt Iraqi business. The CBI must move in a measured manner in order to achieve de-dollarization and stable inside/outside markets for the IQD. When Saddam declared his SD (Saddam Dinar) to be worth $3.22 it caused the real value of IQD to drop into the mud and become unstable for the 30 years of his terroristic rule. The CBI won't make the same mistake again. Easiest way to think about it is: Slow Grow is better than No Grow. :biggrin:
Perhaps you should read the IMF regulations, they require a currency be maintained in a (approx.) 4% range. not a 4% range in comparison with other countries but a 4% range from where they start when becoming a member. i.e. the dinar is at 1000:1 when Iraq becomes a member of the IMF. the dinar may increase to no more than 980 dinars to the dollar and may not decline in value any more than 1020 dinars to the dollar.
As for the slow grow I'll use the same example I used earlier elsewhere:
It's not difficult to see the merchants raising prices but the problem comes when long term imports/export contracts are signed.
If I agree to buy 1000 widgets a month from Joe in Jordan at 1000 dinar per widget for the next 2 years, (assuming a steady increase in the value of the dinar of 25% per year) by the time the contract is up I'm paying 50% more per widget then when I started.
Let's not forget the law that was passed requiring all transactions in Iraq to be conducted only in dinar.
Also have you realized that your model shows an increase in the value of the dinar by 200-300 dinar to the dollar every four months or so? You just said that a large revaluation would cause mass chaos but I'm sure you realize that the last 3 increases shown in your model are increase of 60%, 33% and a 100% increase, respectively, in the value of the dinar. Are you really trying to say that a one time revaluation would cause more problems then continuous large increases?