Puntland can’t print currency it’s against the provisional constitution and even if it did the SFG issued currency would be adopted by all states except Puntland making trade impossible.
Just know the more we sit here with Isaq and Hawiye, the more lays nici doone. I want to design PL economy so we have stable currency, legal tender, controlled supply based on our GDP. We just want to ensure there is enough currency circulating to ensure trade can happen, like someone selling a house, car, camel, products, services. We need to ensure the currency is there to support this. I would say $2 billion worth of business activities happen each year. But when we bring in my big projects, wallahi that will change to 3 billion, then 4, 5, 6, so our central bank needs to keep up pumping more notes and sending it to the private banks.
You do know printing more money decreases it's value.
Take a look at Somaliland Central Bank when the shilling was rising and reached about 12k the bright in a new governor who started priming in place certain measures and ever since then the shilling got stronger now at 8k and stable
Somalia's economy is largely supported by peasants. I agree they need help such as loans to increase their stock and livelihood but that can be done in the form of micro lending. It won't result in billions but at tops a few million. These sort of initiatives do not have a return on investment and barely break even but they stimulate the economy.That's insane because the SFG can then manipulate Somalia economy and use it as a 'threat' against regions. Giving them this role is very dangerous and can comprise all Puntland economic direction without a stable currency provider. Is it even independent from politics our central bank and run by pure capitalist and economist who's only goal is to ensure there isn't disaster in business activity within the nation.
It's not hard to print currency. Set up 5 private banks and deliver the currency to them to begin taking control of the market place because without full control of the market place, we can't manipulate it and protect it against a global or local slow down in business.
For example their could be years where we only print 2 billion dollars worth of Somali shilling, where-as another year we may print 5 billion dollars worth of somali shilling because we know there is 'FDI' or 'Predicted Diaspora Investment' or 'Tourism' or something to justify the increase of notes needed to support the trade.
Somalia's economy is largely supported by peasants. I agree they need help such as loans to increase their stock and livelihood but that can be done in the form of micro lending. It won't result in billions but at tops a few million. These sort of initiatives do not have a return on investment and barely break even but they stimulate the economy.
Instead of waiting on the government to print currency that no one has faith in and is largely useless (majority of Somali currency is fake) we should continue using stable currencies like the dollar and lend money to small business owners. Like you said a private bank can be established to do it but since there's no profit in it people do not do it.
What will you do when Puntland has one currency and the SFG has another. Other states will use the SFG currency and how will you exchange Puntland currency with the dollar and others for example for currency swaps for those large industries?You can easily clean up the fake currency thru strong policing and removing all currency that isn't using the government printed note. In-fact you can make the govt printed note 'secure' with 'chips' or 'polyster' or some unique material only the govt has and the currency manipulator doesn't.
I would punish anyone manipulating any currency in PL not just Somali shilling but also foreign currency with heavy sentences and treat it like a 'war crime' and not 'civil or criminal case' and let the military courts deal with them and not civil courts. I would grade those assholes as severe as terrorists.
What will you do when Puntland has one currency and the SFG has another. Other states will use the SFG currency and how will you exchange Puntland currency with the dollar and others for example for currency swaps for those large industries?
The FGS isn’t ever making a currency, and a PL currency would dominate Somalia anyways even if they did. Trade all the way to Hiraan originates from Bosaso even as far as Beledweyne they drive around with PL plates as they need them to get to Bosaso to use our port.