I don't know why this is so hard to get. The $ dropped for a simple reason - fewer people want $ or the products and services they can thereby purchase. Price is one factor, but the fact that we don't produce finished goods that others want is another (not in an absolute sense, but in a relative one that there is a great imbalance in what we produce that others want compared to what we preferrably consume from elsewhere.)
The quality issue is a big deal. Why can BMW export expensive cars everywhere, but Detroit can export cheap cars almost nowhere?
You said — “I don’t know why this is so hard to get. The $ dropped for a simple reason - fewer people want $ or the products and services they can thereby purchase.”
I didn’t say “I didn’t get it...” What I said was that it was bad news for me. “Getting it” does not make it better news for me or help when my dollars only buy half as much as it did before a big and dramatic collapse. “Getting it” is absolutely no consolation to me.
And along with that, “getting it” doesn’t make it a “good thing” either — as far as I’m concerned. Even while “getting it” — it’s as big a disaster as it was before (”getting it” — if someone did not...).