Protectionist rhetoric will only accelerate the dollar's slidehttp://mises.org/Community/blogs/radicalidealism/archive/2007/11/06/protectionist-rhetoric-will-only-accelerate-the-dollar-s-slide.aspxPat Buchanan's recent attempt to diagnose the sinking dollar demonstrates that ignorance of basic economics is not limited to the left. Buchanan points out the plummeting value of the dollar relative to other currencies and major commodities suchenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)