1-19-2014 *Jester ~I AM HEARING SOME THINGS... LOTS HAVING TO DO WITH THE PLAN AS EVERYONE SAYS... AND IT IS STILL ALL A TIMING ISSUE...THE BANKS ARE NOT HOLDING THIS UP...I AM OF THE OPINION THAT THINGS ARE MOVING ALONG... WE SEE LITTLE VICTORIES EACH DAY... IT IS MOVING THE RIGHT DIRECTION..
1-19-2014 *Stryker ~Kurdistan's President Barzani arrived in Baghdad today to meet with Prime Minister Maliki and to resolve the outstanding issues holding up the 2014 Budget. Where it had looked like all of those...issues were resolved a few weeks back here came yet another issue. The Kurds announced they were ready to export oil through Turkey to the worlds market place. It seemed that Maliki and Barzani had it too all worked out right before the end of 2013 but Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani stepped in and stopped the deal causing yet another chaos to occur. Well it seems that Barzani's visit today worked as some breaking news has just come out of Iraq, Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani is in an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government to export of oil, according to a unified mechanism. This unified mechanism will allow the export of oil and within a few days we should see the 2014 Budget back on track which means we could be looking a stop to all delays in Economic Reform.
1-20-2014 *Millionday ~Article quote: "the state administration economic adviser in the Prime Minister Dr. Abdul Hussein Al-Anbuge between the "efficiency lies in the private sector, not in the state administration" remember the heart of a healthy economy is the private sector -- this is noting that they are moving it forward fast. they are prepared and have a plan they are following as written. ...other experts from outside of iraq have helped them in getting everything set for placing themselves on the stock market and to activate it all as it is planned. They need a date too --- it is hard to plan out a business plan if you only know change is a comin`...this is great news...moving to opening up the economic market and the stock market. [DO they need to have an international recognized currency to open up the stock market?] yes, they do. [so they are sharing the plan, but not the time frame?] yes, that is right -- the plan but not the date but they have said that they need the date released.