You can't see it at that level. A U.S. Dollar is *forever* locked in at $1.00 for Americans, never $0.25.
It's only to *foreigners* that the Dollar's value fluctuates, and even then it only fluctuates for remuneration back to your foreign nation...your intra-U.S. trade still gets full value.
>>You can't see it at that level. A U.S. Dollar is *forever* locked in at $1.00 for Americans, never $0.25.<<
Ok Let me say the full sentence, just for you.
I'm not anxious to see our Dollars value drop further and be worth $0.25 when we want to use it in a foreign country.
A very good example is the Canadian Dollar is viewed as only being worth $0.75 in America. It is still a dollar but it will not buy $1.00 worth of American items.
Do you understand that or should I draw you a picure?
Well, that can't be true. It could only be true if we didn't depend on foreign imports, like energy, clothes, and appliances. Therefore, the sinking dollar WILL fluctuate within the borders; it will buy much less of those essential foreign produced goods.
If you have global free trade, then global trade matters. You cannot say that it doesn't. There are consequences either way you look at it.