1. Comment on the consequences of a reduction in U.S. oil imports for the value of the U.S. dollar. Next, consider that President Carter's energy policy involved heavily taxing U.S. oil production, imposing price controls on domestically produced crude oil and gasoline, and providing rebates to users of heating oil. How was this energy policy likely to affect the value of the dollar?
2. What were the likely consequences of the slowdown in U.S. economic growth for the value of the dollar? The U.S. trade balance?
3. If President Carter had listened to the financial markets, instead of trying to lecture them, what might he have heard? That is, what were the markets trying to tell him about his policies?