MarkZ Morning (Uncut) 04-10-2025

Coffee with MarkZ. 04/10/2025

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I’m hungry. I’m worried about you. I think I’m starting to like the new intro music.

I’ve got to get to work on something better. I’ve got an idea for it, an actual intro intro. Dave, a lot of people want to know if we’re close.

We’ll talk about what I’m hearing in just a few minutes. Give folks a chance to join in. It is a little chilly in North Carolina.

I have gotten spoiled. No news on the pango, unfortunately. Kelly, I’m definitely missing Penny.

Noelle, never give up. We’re celebrating her husband’s heavenly birthday, Johnny, today. Gene, 62.

Wait, 72, but feel like I’m 62. I like that one. I like that one a lot.

Let’s keep it close. Now I can play catch up. Let’s see.

Karen said everyone just got out of the ICU with emergency surgery. Oh my, Karen, I had no idea. Colon cancer took the whole right side of the colon.

Did you get stuck with a colostomy bag or anything? What’s the prognosis? We definitely want to say prayers. Kirby, it’s good to see you and the bride there. Always a pleasure.

Looking forward to seeing you guys next month, just a couple of weeks. The missing one, they found their son. That is good news.

Trenton Valley, boy, rumor has it China will cave to U.S. tariffs today. Europe caved to the tariffs. It’s going to be interesting.

Going to make for an interesting one. Adam checking in. Stock markets are doing the reverse.

Yesterday, we knew that was going to happen, guys. It’s profit changing. They are readjusting after going up 3,000 points, the knee-jerk reaction, the fear of missing out.

They all purchased like crazy. Now they are unwinding the ones now that they’ve had a chance to do some analysis. So you know, that probably wasn’t a good idea.

Let’s switch out. Let’s take a little profit and let’s circle the wagons and make sense because we still haven’t relaxed the tariffs on China yet. Sendpony, I saw that text.

Let’s see. Tell Sudani we will advertise it in our sale and revalue globally. That will get us some action fast.

You know, little Johnny, if we could push bigger, it probably would get us action because they’d have to do something. Well, it costs them the same after a revalue. It actually costs them less.

What they have done, though, when they’re doing those contracts in the contract is a mechanism to revalue. It actually makes more sense for them to cut the deals now because it’s an overall set amount and they base them in US dollars with these contractors. Very rarely do they base them, at least foreign contractors, do they base it on IQD.

They’ll base it on Australian currency if it’s an Australian company, US if it’s a US company. So they have the ability to adjust the value, the overall cost of the project, same. So if they revalue up after negotiating it with the lower rates, they come out exponentially ahead.

They just about get all their projects done for free. So they get a huge amount to gain from it. Blue Goose Glenn, Blue Goose Glenn’s birthday today.

Let’s see. Earlene checking in, a morning snow in Oakland, Michigan. Happy birthday to me.

69 years young. Hey, look, we sent the snow just for you to have a pretty picture to look at this morning. Snow, it’s April, people.

Stop snowing. Oh, wait a minute. AOC is calling on Congress to be investigated for insider trading.

She’s going to be a white hat. What did that just make, Mike Bear’s day? Oh, all right. We probably need to run into it.

Well, after we check in with RW for our enlightenment of the day. Opportunities are like sunrises. You wait too long, you miss them.

Amen. I hope you guys are right that Z and China, it’s all part of the movie. It’s all flushing out.

I wish I shared your optimism on that front. Chris, hey, at least you found me. That’s a great thing.

Glad you checked in. Snow in North Texas earlier this week. Yeah, that’s cuckoo.

80 in North Florida today. I’m going with Chris because it’s going to be like 50 something in the Carolinas and I’m just cold. The only time I’m warm since I’ve gotten here is when I’m having a hot shower.

Xavier, exactly. Time will tell. Is it or isn’t it? Treebeard, I think we’re going to make it before yours.

Your birthday’s not until the 28th. Let me make certain I hit all these flight level. Thank you, sir.

Saying the metals are skyrocketing this morning. Dow Jones Industrial down 8.50. Markets down, metals mixed. Michelle, would you explain the tariff, please? When is the amount due determined? How is it determined and when is it paid? Paid to U.S. government.

The amount is based on the stated value of the goods that are being brought in. They have to give a value. On occasion, they will randomly pick shipments or if they think it has been undervalued, they will at that point go in and have it appraised to make certain they are getting the proper tax and then it goes to customs officials, the treasury.

But a tariff is simply, hey, you want to sell here, we’re going to charge you extra because you’re taking jobs away from our local manufacturing, et cetera. All other countries in the world do them. I don’t know if I can say all, but I can say the overwhelming majority like 99 point whatever.

EU uses tariffs. UK uses tariffs. Germany uses tariffs.

Iran uses tariffs. Iraq uses tariffs. China uses tariffs.

Russia uses tariffs. Panama uses tariffs. Uruguay uses tariffs.

You get where I’m going here. Peru has them. Every country on the planet has tariffs, but it’s bad if the U.S. has them because the U.S. is the universal customer.

Everybody wants to sell to us, so we’re not allowed to behave like them in their minds. I am going to ask for prayers for my mother. Blood pressure bottoming out.

She is off to the hospital this morning, so some concerns there. She’s going to be fine. Probably just a medicine where they got to adjust, but prayers will be appreciated on that front.

Oh, Michelle. Okay. I misunderstood part of the question.

You understand the mechanics, but yes, customs answers to Treasury on the financial side, so it goes straight to U.S. Treasury instead of to the Federal Reserve, which I think is a good thing. Carol, I’ll have to do some research on that one. I think I found that they just termed their tariff differently.

In other words, if there’s a VAT or whatever Trump considers at a tariff because it’s being charged and rightfully does, but I’d have to do a little research on that one. If I remember correctly, I read a piece on that and was saying that the difference was how they termed it. Just give it a different saying.

Appreciate those prayers, guys. Marcus on the news that a woman is stuck in Puerto Rico with her parakeet because they won’t let her have it on the plane. Maybe you should go check on her.

I’ll keep the parakeet while she figures it out. I know they move birds often, so I don’t know. Maybe because the bird flu scare, they’re afraid to move a bird.

Kelly, blood pressure meds are crazy. Your body gets used, and they just have a tough time adjusting. Mark, people can’t say they’re under an NDA.

Steve, they should absolutely be allowed to say they’re under an NDA. When they are asked, they should just simply say, hey, NDA, I can’t talk about it. I’ve been under NDAs before for work related things.

When somebody asks, I’ll just say, I can’t comment. But you should absolutely be allowed to say you’re under an NDA. I am told, though, that they are monitoring communications for these Bonda after the exchanges and their metadata to find out who they’ve been conversing with, et cetera.

I could see with that much money at stake why I would just not answer the phone. Then I don’t even have to play the game with them asking me questions in NDA or me messing up and giving them a little piece going, well, let’s just say I’m really happy, and I can afford that $300 million island or something and get himself in trouble. I think the bird’s talking.

What does the bird know about Hillary Clinton that they won’t allow it to come back to the state side? Da-da. A to Z, I am not under an NDA for CMKX. I did sign an NDA many, many years ago when I folded some currency in with a group, but I have not been paid on it.

I am just not allowed to talk about the rate when I receive it. I can talk about everything now. Yeah, I put some in a group.

I put some denier in a group, and I put some dong in another church group. All I can say is it’s in the church group. I’m allowed to talk about that, or it’s in the other group in Reno.

I’m not going to be able to tell you the rate I when I receive the rate. That’s what the NDA covers. But that was years ago.

Nothing’s happened. I haven’t gotten paid. I haven’t signed anything new.

The last NDA I signed was a couple of weeks ago and had nothing to do with currency. It had everything to do with the day job and a project we were working on. I know.

I should have had the banner on as we started talking. Let’s get into some news time. Let’s figure out where the market is now, down 1,000 points, racing a third of yesterday, I guess.

Al Rapidain, activating the comprehensive banking system in 57 branches. This one is a new add-on to the ever-expanding digital banking system in Iraq as they work towards becoming very modernized. This is one of the pillars of their white papers and their reforms so that they can lift the purchasing power.

I thought that was a good one to put in this morning. Not a whole lot of news this morning, folks. Should leave us time for a bit of Q&A for those that are worried about what things might look like.

Barzani, conditions are good with Baghdad. I kind of like how Barzani went on this one. Okay, I don’t kind of like.

I do like. He said, look, when we did the thing, we, them, Baghdad, Kurdistan, et cetera, when they worked on their constitution, when they worked on their government framework, they all agreed to certain things. They’ve not all upheld them at all times, and he’s pointed out that much of the fault lies in the Kurdish regional government.

Some relies in Baghdad, but they’re going to work together because the pillars that they established, their ideals are worth pursuing and chasing so that they have a unified government. Now, this one I think is important because I do believe the people there are more civics-minded than we are in the States now, by and large. Doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of us that care, but they had the three staples or three pillars that they were working on, and see if I can find those.

Iraq was formed on the basis of three pillars, partnership, balance, and consensus, that they would all work together between the Kurdish region, the southern region, Baghdad, the two regions, they would work together through balance, talk, consensus, they would always work it out and strive for stability and security, and they haven’t always upheld, but he said, look, these are ideals that are worth pursuing, and we are pursuing. Sudani and I are working together to pursue these things so that all Iraqis have prosperity. I like that because we have so many tenets in our constitution, and we haven’t always been perfect, and the left is like, let’s just go back to the declaration, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

Among these, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, meaning we were striving to end racism, government control over our lives. There were certain ideals that our founders were chasing, and they’re worthy ideas, worthy ideals, worthy things to strive for and achieve, and rather than throw out everything, because at times we have strayed, why don’t we just double down and keep pushing for those worthy ideals? See, for me, I kind of love it, just like the articles you read saying, hey, every time we have a deficit, we are taxing our future generations and ourselves, and we’re going to have to pay interest on it. It makes no sense.

They talk about the need to work together to lift all people up, the need to work based on merit, so everybody is judged by the strength of their character and quality of their work. Some of these ideals have just gone to the wayside in America, so love to see them fighting for those things. Gives me a lot of encouragement for long-term stability in Iraq.

Positive indicators to diversify sources of income away from oil. You’re watching Trump push here in the U.S. sovereignty, bring manufacturing back. Iraq wants to do the same.

They want to diversify their economy. Oil derivatives, more than just oil, agriculture, et cetera. They keep talking about this, guys.

The reason they do is because they need the people to understand that they’re moving to stability so they can justify a rate change. I love watching this stuff play out. It’s like history lesson live, live.

Dr. Harrod, how are you referring to them? They come pretty close. Ideals is what we would refer to them if, let’s just say, I don’t know, we all want to love one another in a positive manner. Then that’s something we strive for.

We don’t always succeed. The idea is to do it. The ideals are that goal.

I know, it gets confusing. We are going to have time for some questions this morning. We do not have Stacey Z. She is in route for family functions.

She is on the road. Let’s bounce over to the EU and tariffs. EU pauses countermeasures against U.S. still tariffs for 90 days.

European Commissioner President Ursula von der Leyen finally coming to her senses instead of doubling down and trying to go to war and tariffs. I guess she looked at their economy, their manufacturing base, and said, we can’t play this game. And said, we get it.

The U.S. is trying hard. Other countries are negotiating. We really need to give this a fair shake.

We need to sit down in good faith instead of agitating, instead of ramping things up. We need to chill things out. European Union said on Thursday that it will pause its countermeasures against U.S. still and aluminum tariffs for 90 days.

Now, I will give you a quote. We took note of the announcement by President Trump. We want to give negotiations a chance.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said an April 10th statement posted on social media platform X. While finalizing the adoption of the EU countermeasures that sell strong support from our member states, we will put them on hold for 90 days. In other words, the accountants did the math and said it really doesn’t matter what the people want here because they don’t understand what they want. I know that’s confusing, too, because it’s supposed to matter what the people want.

If negotiations aren’t satisfactory, our countermeasures will kick in. Preparatory work on further countermeasures continues, as I have said before. All options remain on the table.

She still wanted to sound tough. At the same time, she was like, you know, he’s willing to work with us. Things haven’t been fair.

We should probably sit down in good confidence and have a reasonable adult conversation before we knee-jerk react. They’re catching on. It’s all about the negotiation.

It’s all about the deal. Sit down, make a deal that works for both sides. Here was a fun one.

In congressional testimony, Whistleblower accuses Meta of aiding China’s censorship. Former Facebook exec accused the company of working to help China out-compete U.S. companies, including helping them with AI, helping them with censorship, and they have some of the receipts. Of course, Meta is trying to bury this former Wynne Williams, who served as the director of global public policy for Facebook from 2011 to 2017, so for six years.

During that time, she said Meta executives lied about what they were doing with the Chinese Communist Party to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public. Wynne Williams’ allegations against Meta, which she detailed in her memoir, Careless People, include the claim that the company worked hand-in-glove with the CCP to custom-build and yield censorship tools against the regime’s critics. Of course, Facebook is trying to cover her up with tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits to keep her quiet from speaking because they don’t want the backlash.

They already took one heck of a hit after the Twitter files were released by Musk and crew and the brave group of journalists who worked on that one, who don’t even politically agree most of the time with Musk or the right. Most of them are very liberal, but they very much believe in free speech. For me, Schellenberger, Tabibi, those guys.

I love them having those open conversations where both sides of the political aisle defend free speech. This one, nobody has faith in them. Stock took one heck of a hit after the Twitter files.

I think they are simply terrified. They’re spending tens of millions of dollars in lawsuits to try to keep her quiet. It didn’t work.

Republican congressmen and senators brought her in to testify anyways, making it very public. Not a great day to be Mr. Zuckerberg. Hello, kind of confused.

Good to see you in the deal, in the room. Richard, I’ll let all you know how the meta-deal is going. I just posted that video.

Oh, yeah. Just keep letting us know. See if it’s tanking.

All right. Germany’s coalition government government wants to strengthen democracy by abolishing it. We continue to see this in Europe right now.

The people don’t agree, but the politicians are doing their best to bury. They’re scrapping transparency. Goodbye to Germany’s Freedom of Information Act.

They are proposing that they do away with their Freedom of Information Act because, well, it exposes when government does something, then people lose faith in government. Well, they should lose faith in government, but they want to bury it so that you can’t get it. It works like our FOIA requests in the U.S. They are trying to cancel that.

One of the most shocking ideas in the leaked coalition papers is the plan to ditch Germany’s Freedom of Information Act, called their IFG, similar to our FOIAs in the U.S., which lets citizens request government records like emails or reports to hold officials accountable. They’re trying to end that. Of course, they want to criminalize any lies.

The problem is, and they say they want to set up an independent group of fact checkers. Have we not all seen how that works? We saw that in the U.S., we saw that in Europe, we’ve seen that in London, we’ve seen that everywhere at this point. How does that one work? Well, we know how that one works.

The fact checkers are their own people, or the globalists. We have seen it left and right, left and right, and somehow the people are just supposed to have great faith in that. I don’t think that’s going to work for the German people either.

Lovely idea, but what happens if conservatives control that thought police? You think the liberals would be happy about that? Of course not. Vice versa. Better yet, have free speech, work on educating the public, and let them decide what is right and what is wrong.

Life and AZ, yeah, no, you missed it. Yeah, the Nazis are back, Northman. Nazis are back, but we will touch on it again.

Guys, bond contacts gone very, very, very quiet. Group contacts moving to set up for disbursement. Yesterday, banking side, we saw a lot of rates populating and changing throughout the afternoon on nearly every currency we’ve been looking at, which was a first, so that part was kind of exciting, or I shouldn’t say kind of exciting, but was exciting.

I’m trying to think of what else we had going on late in the day yesterday. As of this morning, I am still getting crickets from the bond side, which I think is great news. They were expecting dollars.

My biggest bond holder is like, look, you’re just going to go to voicemail. I’m not going to get myself in trouble. Sounded good to me.

Not heard anything on the boulevard of the lake. All right, keep running. That was just a quick little relapse one there, or shouldn’t say a recap there.

All right, banning politicians, incitement is career ending. Now, I wish, can we do this in the US? If they incite, of course, they would like to tell you that Trump incited when he said, go make your, go peacefully, make your voices heard. They try to claim that one inciting.

So when we have Democrats actually supporting violence and riots, should we go after that? Should that be career ending? Banning politicians incitement as career ender. I think we should perhaps do that. In the US, barring someone from running from office is rare and usually tied to serious crimes like treason.

Think of the 14th amendment after the civil war. Germany’s proposal feels more like a political weapon against the opposition. The SPD has been pushing the eligibility ban for a while, and now it’s in the coalition talks.

DeWelt reports it’s aimed at extremists. The problem is the extremists are the globalists now. So just another example of where freedom and democracy goes to die in Europe.

Now I get to read and hang out with you guys. Let’s see. Great news.

The big, beautiful bill is coming along really well. Republicans are working together nicely. Biggest tax cuts in US history, getting close, according to Donald J. Trump.

TMB, Snopes has been found. Snopes has been wrong so many times. And then they found two different, well, the founders of Snopes and one of them caught manipulating news on purpose.

The other founder coming out and going, you know, this is a mess. I wouldn’t trust the fact checking there anymore. Yes.

When somebody says, oh, but Snopes said, I’m like, and the tooth fairy said, I’m not going to get $20 for the tooth because there was a cavity, right? Or because I thought about eating some candy. Yes, Snopes is cuckoo. And how many more times, it’s like CNN, how many retractions do you have to print on your news or give on your news? But the problem is Snopes doesn’t.

They just quietly change it. They don’t take responsibility for the tremendous amount of misinformation that they have been responsible for. And that is my strong opinion because I’ve been subjected to it before.

So it is also my real life experience. Fred, happy birthday. Well, Fred, it’s either you’re 73 today or it’s warm where you’re at this afternoon.

All right. US Embassy in Baghdad confirmed on Wednesday that it had signed multi-billion dollar agreements with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani through American companies. 30 megawatts of power.

Just huge deal cut yesterday between US business and Iraqi businesses or government and businesses. Stan, I think that’s exactly what we’re doing. It sounds like we’re just waiting for notifications come out of bondholders or on NDAs.

That’s pretty much my take. No, I do have some that have not gotten an update. I do have some church groups that know nothing right now.

I would like to think it’s because they’re considered a little… I was told that some time ago that the ones they were worried about leaking information were moved to the back of the queue so that they couldn’t fib before they were ready for the news to get out. That makes a lot of sense to me. Mary, happy 62nd.

Dazzo, you probably get the best news ever. I get my news from the Babylon Bee. Why can’t you see the VND above three when their economy is booming? Just discovered a bunch of new gold too.

Because the amount in circulation, Don, I just don’t see it. I understand many people’s argument, but I look at some of the other macro factors. I look at how much gold they may have, what their potential is, and I just don’t see it.

Unless they massively devalue the dollar, I don’t see it. Tina, let’s talk about what the stock market’s doing. Last time we checked, it was down about 1,000 points.

It’s down 937.44 right now, down 937 points. It looks like it’s trying to do a little bounce here. We’ll see how it goes throughout the morning.

Kathy, I feel like I have pretty good contacts on the Zim side. They’re very involved in aggregating it for platforms. Todd said, a lot of RV channels saying it’s already happening.

The announcement comes this weekend. It’s probably many of the same crew that said announcements were coming last weekend. I do know as close.

I’m hearing those same rumors. They’re fantastic. They’re awesome.

I’m just trying to make certain everybody stays calm and realistic as we get through these, what we hope are the final days. Anthony, just went to the Ohio River in Louisville. You would not believe this house is underwater.

Oh, I am not surprised. What I was seeing at the Buffalo Trace Distillery, serious flooding. Dylan, for me, I think realistically the low side for V&D is about where I’m guessing at the 2225 range.

LaVoy, last birthday in the 60 group today. I mean, LaVoy, you didn’t want to just say 69? Laughing at some of you guys’ comments. It’s looking great.

Linda is going to celebrate 80 tomorrow. What an awesome achievement. Thank you for the prayers, Ms. Couplet.

Let’s see. Okie, Matt, good to see you. Diamond Spur.

I’m saying no to heart surgery. Arterial valve severely leaking. Diamond, take it seriously.

Find you a doctor you trust. Metals have been shooting up throughout the morning. We will see if they are continuing to do so.

Gold up 3152. Guys, there will be some differences between sites based on how they figure their algorithms to trace it. Some of them trace it live time, which doesn’t allow for swings or a single purchase or buy or a large one, so it fluctuates more.

Miles Franklin tends to trail just a touch. They do it so that you don’t bounce all over the place. Silver up 10 cents, 3118.

Metals are definitely on the rebound. Reading a few this morning. What about Sheila saying VND is tied to the normal, be 5% less? Which Sheila, Dawn? Which Sheila? I’ve had many say that I am off on my valuations, and Dawn, and I hope they are right.

I just don’t see it. Most often when we see rates populating on it, 99% of the time they’re in that low $2 range, so it’s kind of a loose confirmation. I hope they’re right.

I hope it is much higher. I just don’t see it. I was always told it would be about a third less.

Hello, Gone Fish and Trin Valley Boy. I think we’re all trying to figure out what’s holding us back from going to that level playing field. Are they still doing some of the preliminary land clearing, which I believe Trump to definitely be doing by doing the tariffs, the tariff scares, ups and downs whenever he announces another one.

I think he’s shaking out the market. And doing it on purpose so that the reset isn’t quite as painful. Let’s see.

Wendy Morgan posted restored Republic said 11 bucks on the dong. Yeah, no part of me sees that, but I hope they are right. Lex, we do not know for certain what’s in a second basket or what’s going after.

Many that I have talked to in the upper echelons believe that look for Central African currencies, a couple of the Southern Americas, meaning Central and South America, and a number of the Mongolia, some of the other Asian or Pacific countries that don’t go in the first. Executive order sign preventing China from owning American farmland. That’s fantastic.

Can we just stop all billionaires from owning them? Surely that is exactly what they are testing first is to see if my mother is dehydrated. Tilly says TNT Tony saying 28 plus for the NAR $11 to the dong. There have been those rumors that your first five or 10 million denier will bring 2850.

I’ve heard those for years. Sounds really good on the boards. I can’t find any group leader, any banker that has been told that.

So I hope they’re right. I hope I’m wrong. Dan, all the typical ones.

Then I have so many friends that are in bank management that I get to quiz them as to what they’re saying. That’s usually an aggregate of Forex and some of the exchange sites and the banks. Yes, Vietnam has been buying back some of their currency.

They’ve over the past roughly year and a half been going after corruption in their government and reacquiring the funds lost to fraud, bringing them back in. Gina, are you not confident we’re going this week? I don’t know when we’re going, Gina. Does my gut think we’re probably going? I think you’re going to see bonds wrapping up this week.

Then probably three days, maybe a week later, you see currency. That’s what I think. Food rack.

Again, I think the DONG is going to be in the low to mid, roughly two and a quarter roughly is what I think it’ll be at. That’s not a bad idea on the Kagan because I don’t use it often. Got one here, got one there.

Let’s see. Eli, would it be possible that the RV won’t be tied to traditional fundamentals? This is a godly event. Eli, as much as that sounds great, it means a lot to you, me, those that are religious, but to much of the secular world that spends money, it would fall on its face if the fundamentals didn’t back it.

The fundamentals have to back it. Randy, question, the DONG is 19 times less valuable than NAR, so why would their RV values be so much closer? That’s a great question. I think they’ll be fairly close.

I believe that the DONG, because of its long record, it should have revalued probably in the late 70s, early 80s after the Vietnam War, but they have played games with it since. They’ve been playing the games longer than they have in Iraq, and I think that has affected its valuations greatly. Skipper, no, personally, I don’t think the US is going to find a way to tax this after the RV, but to be safe, I have set aside a portion of my currency to pay taxes.

Jay, I would be great with that. Jay says, I got a feeling the DONG will be $4.25 and NAR will be $8.50. What do you guys think? You’re allowed to have your own opinion. Absolutely allowed to have it.

Matter of fact, I highly suggest you having your own opinion. We do know that the ultimate goal is to move to parity, so they’ve got to, as Mr. C has explained to us, they have to revalue all the currencies and then go to parity. Bill, will our DONAR go from Redemption Center to the US Treasury? For most of us, Bill, as I understand it, yes.

I have been told that some of the groups have cut deals with other sovereigns for rates that can be used for oil for DONAR, and those would go from Redemption area or whatever they’re using to that nation that is aggregating as well. I know that one gets confusing. Trenton, I’m asking for what you guys think Redemption, what do you think we’ll get when we go? Call it a Redemption rate, call it a bank rate, call it whatever rate you want.

What do you think we’re going to get when we walk out the door or we walk in the door? Jeff thinks NAR at $3.91, DONG at $2.23, RUPEAT at $0.89 in Mr. Demers’ opinion. We had another one. Jay thinks the NAR in the low fours, DONG in the high twos to pushing three.

Thomas is far more optimistic. He thinks 16 on the IQD, eight on the BND. We did have Shabibi telling us he could easily, and this was many years ago, and there was more DONAR in circulation and they didn’t have the same number of natural resources that they were pumping, had found, had discovered, and even Shabibi was like 14, 16 bucks.

Yeah, absolutely. I could easily justify it. And now there’s about twice the value and half the DONAR.

So, I mean, it is definitely possible, guys. Randy thinks DONAR might be 18 and a quarter. God, that would be huge.

Stan said a lot of the RV sites have the NAR at $5.29 and the DONG at $4.19. Rainman, yes. Anushka thinks $6.81 and $2.50. Roman, a lot of people are in your boat. This moment I would take $0.10. Get everything paid for, get my life on track and move on, right? John Kennedy thinks $5.46 and $3.10. Gina just says more than I paid for them.

Hello, Dink. Good to see you in the house. Parkside Ladybug said, I’m good with IQD at $3.22, VND at $2.25, and Bolivar at $0.30. Reading a few.

She will. So, how do we figure out how much we receive for our 1NR? We have to wait until they post the rates. There are lots of rumors, a lot of people giving opinions and thoughts on what they think the rate will be.

The reality is we’re not going to know for certain until we get in to redeem them. I see a number of people saying, whatever God gives me, that’s what I’m getting. Ose Susana said, DONG was at $2.22 before the Vietnam.

It was not quite as high, but if you figured in inflation, yeah, it would put it somewhere right at that rate. And that’s honestly, Ose Susana, why I believe that’s going to be roughly the rate we see, is because when I do the math and correct for inflation, it puts it almost right in there in the mid twos. Cindy Rowe thinks $3.21 on DONG, $2.25 on DONG.

I’m interested in reading some of you guys’ takes on this. Prime Cowman thinks $3.00 a DONG. Prime Cowman thinks $5.00 a DONG.

Who else? MT, Boydy, DONG, $4.00, DONG, $6.00. I think that one’s possible. It’s like guessing how many jelly beans are in a jar, right? And if you win, you get it all. Ray said, I based my Vietnamese DONG purchase on $2.25. I based mine on like $0.37. That’s where I was figuring it was going to be $0.30, $0.40. And boy, even then, that’s a huge win.

I was excited about those thoughts. Jill, I have thought about buying some Uganda shilling as well. I had a kind person here send a yellow dragon bond.

Well, a couple of different like currency things that I didn’t have before. They’re in Puerto Rico. I need to figure out.

I’ve tried before with a black light, seeing how I can show you guys security features. I just can’t get it to camera. I can’t get it to photo well.

Yeah, Zim, I’d take a penny. Absolutely. Anybody figure out what a penny of 100 T is? That’s a lot of money.

I would take it in a heartbeat. Reading a few of these. Whoa, give me just a minute.

A work one came in. All right. Sorry, guys.

That’s the whole multitask. It’s been a rough week. Lots of multitasking.

All right. LaVoy, I saw that. I already have that 60.

See, now you’re just embracing it. All right. Jdub, I’d be happy with Boulevard at 30 cents.

IQD at four. VND at two. I’d be really happy with those.

Well, purchasing big ticket items like cars and property would be as simple as using the new bank cards. Jason, absolutely. That simple.

That is what I’ve been told repeatedly. It will be that simple. You will simply walk in.

The fees are a lot lower, so they’re going to be happier to get your card than they are your check because it’s instant for them. Yeah, under the new system, as it’s been explained to me, walk right in, bam. Walk right out.

Well, drive out. Richard, we shared the bond news earlier. Let’s see.

JustJoneJet, Mark, when should we be quoted 16-ish? Wouldn’t that have been in relation to then current value of the US dollar, which is since devalued? You make an excellent point. It would have been based on the US dollar at the time. You’re talking of backing up a bare minimum of 10 years, roughly more like 15.

It was like 2004 or 5. That’s 20 years now when he made those comments on valuations. Somewhere between 2004 and 7 when he did that video. He really broke it down.

Really broke it down. Angela, I haven’t heard any fresh news on Zim. Nothing new recently.

I’m just reading so many of you guys’ comments, see what you’re talking about. Hunterguy just said, I’d be grateful for any currency as a one-to-one. It would be just, I mean, even a dollar, a denar dollar dong would be life-changing for most.

Pamela, I don’t know if I have that video saved on this system, but I will look for it. Let’s go into this note, note, note, note, seeing if I can find it for you. My favorites somehow have largely erased themselves on this system.

I know it’s listed in Telegram on our information page, and you can find that by going to the originalmarkz.com. You look for a Telegram button, you push it, pops up our different direct links. You’re looking for the Intel info room. I know the video is posted in there somewhere.

I’m not going to take the 10 minutes to search while we’re doing a live. Kevin, how does the price of oil affect the denar? They would ideally like for oil to be at $70 a barrel when they revalue, but as Sudani and his advisor as the director of the CBI, the governor of the CBI, as they’ve all told us recently, they have made allowances for the fluctuations in rate. They know that they are basing the values over, I forget, it’s 50 or 100-year payoff.

They’re saying if oil prices drop 10 bucks, it’s still not going to affect the value because a couple of years from now, it’ll be $10 higher. Overall, they’re looking at an average for the decades projected so that they can justify their value. In other words, we should quit worrying that oil dropped under $70 a barrel.

It’s not going to affect our exchange rate. That’s the short of the story. They have told us that over and over and over and so many, I think no less than three articles a week we’ve been sharing on that of late out of Iraq.

I am curious though, more people not read the actual articles when we release them that talk about these things. They’re always like, yeah, but there’s no proof. I’m like, dude, we’ve probably shared a thousand articles giving you your proof, but so many people out there, it’s easier to be an ostrich.

Hello, Dfly. Good to see you in the house. Pamela Flasted, tried getting on Telegram, was blocked on my Google phone.

What country are you in? Blazing, where is oil prices today though? Let’s take a quick look. Let’s see, World Trade crude 59.57, Brent crude 62.87. We should probably just look at the OPEC basket right now. You look at the overall average 66.54. Well, gasoline continues to drop.

I haven’t looked at the pumps, but they continue to drop. My thoughts on the Ruppiah, Carolina, I have been told over and over and over pretty much from absolute day one that it was going to be a buck 47 every time. That’s one of the few things, when it populates a rate on a screen, it pops it at a buck 47.

I think it’s going to be a buck 47. I know that’s probably high, but I like it. It has been so consistent.

That’s what I think it’ll be worth. Trent Valley Boy, do you know the cost for Iraq to produce in-country oil? It runs roughly $16. Now, when you look at that, what is it running for a number of the shale fields in the US and Canada, it runs like nearly 60 bucks for them to get it out of the ground.

That’s why you’re not going to see oil drop much below that because then they’re going to stop producing. When the shale oil stops producing, that means countries like Iraq that can pump theirs easier, Texas, Iraq, Iran, Northern Africa countries, they can produce theirs at such a lower rate, theirs will become more attractive. That production costs here in the US and Canada greatly limit.

Even you go to Russia, I think their production rates cost is about $38, $40 a barrel. You’re not going to see it drop below that except for an extreme circumstances like the world economy crashes and they have to soak up the oil that’s in storage. Then you can see it drop below that.

Until then, you’re not going to see it drop below that or not for long. It could drop below that for two or three weeks like it did with COVID because there was no demand. The whole world was locked up so nobody was driving.

I have no idea what to tell you guys on Boulevard at all. Oh, Mary, isn’t it fun? Said, asked my brother the other day if he still had the currency we’d once he said it would be great to retire now. Getting hope.

Jay, if Iraq and Vietnam revalue high, wouldn’t that force Trump? Yes, it would, but it’s probably going to happen at the same time anyways. Trump is very much gearing us to revalue gold in our treasury. Carolyn Carr said, I have retired this month.

Congratulations. Rapia, there’s an H at the end. Pretty much anything in the last 20 years is good, just granny.

You’ll have a tough time finding one that’s not good. Patsy said, yeah, I’ll take a buck 47 on the Rapia in a heartbeat, the Indonesian Rapia in a heartbeat. Raul wonders how many RVers in Knoxville, Tennessee? If you guys are in the Knoxville, Tennessee area, don’t give them your exact location.

Sound off there. Let them know. That’s actually kind of fun for anybody that’s willing for the community to see where everybody else is from.

We’ve got a few minutes left. It would be kind of a fun thing to let folks know that they’re not alone. Where are you from? What area? You can just say like Central Washington or Central Tennessee or in the Knoxville area or in the Atlanta area, whatever.

Let folks know, because I think they’ll be surprised how many like-minded thinking people are in their areas. We’ve got Las Vegas, Arizona, Carolina, a lot in North Carolina, a lot in North Carolina. Tucson, Arizona, Minnesota, South Louisiana.

We’ve got MZ Chick near Sacramento in California, SRQ, Central Texas. Got a lot of Central Texas popping in here. Northwest Missouri, California, Central Coast, NOLA in the house, Georgia.

On the different platforms, Eastern Pennsylvania, Texas Gulf Coast, Rome, Italy, and Bendita. I am trying to figure out how to financially afford to take my daughter for graduation at some point over the summer. I want her to see Rome before she goes to work and the world sucks all the hope and joy out of her.

She has currency, don’t panic. North Connecticut, Northern New Jersey, Central Florida, Omaha in the house, Diana enjoying time in Mexico, Monbon in Eastern PA, Pat in South Africa. Kukla with the Intel Room link, way to go.

They can find so many of these articles they’ve been looking for. She has posted in there, she’s done a great job. Gastonia, Kevin hanging out in North Central Arkansas, Finger Lakes in New York, Colorado.

I can’t even say some of these. He’s North Mexican border, New Mexico border from Texas. Memphis, Tennessee, Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania.

Prague’s a fun area, lots of history, lots of stuff to look at, lots of architecture. Chamois in Florida. South New, oh, Southern New Jersey, close to Philly.

A lot of DFWs in Texas. Man, it’s just, we got such a, Ottawa. Gemini in the big borough in North Carolina, middle Tennessee.

Murrell’s Inlet Bank, yeah, I wish, I wonder what the folks at Bovine’s would think if we all got together there, right? Canada, Alberta, Pensacola, Southern South Texas, for Ms. Susan, JCW in Mississippi. There’s Bejeweled in the Central Gulf Coast of Florida. Gregg, Southwest Florida, East Tennessee for Randy.

Don hanging out in Omaha, Nebraska. I believe, I believe Eastern North Carolina. All right, Juneau, Alaska, we got them all over the place.

We got them all over the place. All right, we need to do birthdays and I need to get out of here. Dr. Scott this evening, Zester will be at the helm.

I will work on a little recorded update. I’m going to try to squeeze in there for him tonight so we can just hit the button, make it easy for him. Johnny, Tawny, Lisa, God’s Girl, Jean, Blue Goose Glen, Earlene, Fred, Mary, LaVoy, anybody else sound off? So they tell me it’s your birthday, well happy birthday darling, may you live, may you love, may all your dreams come true.

Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you, to anybody celebrating, happy birthday and enjoy it. You will see, well okay, normal podcast seven at night, Mr. C in the morning. See you guys.