Similarly, the Canon 1D MK IV camera is $1000 more than it's predecessor, the Mark III. Canon strives to make the new version of a camera match the old version in price. Canon and Nikon are in a blood war for the high end professional camera market, and keep each other honest on price.
The clowns in Washington are printing money as fast as they can (or adding numbers to the database) and the Arabs and N. Koreans are counterfeiting money.
They can control the rate of exchange, but foreign manufacturers will raise the price of products, regardless of what the governments dictate.
Eventually the idea would be that this would make foreign products untenable in the American market driving foreign producers to either produce in America to continue accessing our market or it would drive domestic interests to start bringing back manufacturing.
Most people seem to think we don’t have manufacturing capacity. We have a lot of equipment in old manufacturing plants just dying to be used if their was demand. Our manufacturing sector is dead because we simply can’t be profitable doing it.
A depreciated dollar could reverse that trend.