A feature, not a bug, for gold bugs and domestic in-sourcing advocates. A weakening US dollar plays the same role as the tariffs - driving up the cost of imports and cheapening the labor of American domestics. This is a prelude to the American government instituting a Shock Doctrine on itself. Finally, all those lingering public lands and utilities and amenities can be privatized. A return to Coolidge Era Economics, at long last. Took them nearly a century, but the Republican Revolution will finally be complete.