The decision to raise interest rates is one of a number of emergency measures taken by the regime in recent weeks, including the rationing of fuel, restricting cash withdrawals from banks, increasing public sector pay by 50% and doubling pensions.
Those who work with Isis are entitled to certain benefits and Maajid, a 56-year-old mechanic in Mosul, said some people collaborated with the militants to receive bigger rations of fuel and food.
Much of it resembles total war strategies: rationing of fuel and food, cultivation of private gardens, and civilian neighborhood patrols.
Provide emergency rations of cooking fuel to ensure that women are not forced to risk their lives, health and safety to collect firewood; Reduce consumption of firewood: a minimum of 50,000 fuel-efficient stoves are needed for households, and dozens more are needed for institutions like schools, health clinics and feeding centers.
During World War II, the rationing of petroleum fuels gave a boom to ridership on the electric tramways.
But the spike in prices has not provoked the angry protests that followed the introduction of fuel rationing in 2007.
The seizure of ten truckloads of rations and fuel enabled the spearhead units to continue without ceasing.
On my way to and from the shelter, I passed a gasoline station where people lined up, hoping for a small amount of rationed fuel.
But some places are rationing diesel and banning the filling of fuel containers to deter black marketeering.
The Sixth Army, in the midst of chaos, began to build defensive lines, hampered by the lack of fuel, ammunition and rations, and further burdened by the advancing Russian winter.
