It will never be a real issue. If the USD drops too much then the rest of the world will do what they can to boost it, simply because there is far too much international investment in America.
If the USD dropped to half its value, then Japan , as an example , looses half its income for the goods they export to the US, their property investments are worth half as much, the raw goods they buy (iron, coal, foodstuffs etc) become rarer and rise in price because US companies fold or can no longer afford to export.
The same is true of almost all other countries, all have some investment is seeing that the USD doesnt drop too far.
I use Japan as an example because the have a large Financial investment in the US. If the USD devalues a little, then they make a little more buying raw goods and investing in the property market, simply because the Yen buys a little more. If it devalues too much then the goods that they manufacture, like TV's and other electronics, become too expensive for the US people to buy, so they loose income due to lack of sales, their property devalues because no-one can afford to buy it, and the resources that they buy become unwanted because no-one can afford to buy the finished products.
This is true of any economy that has ties with the USD, the more substantial the ties the more it is in their interest to keep the USD at a reasonable level.
A "decent" war, has in the past , been the answer to an ailing economy. It creates employment (military personnel) that need to be replenished continually, Industry increases, making the guns, planes, ships etc, increasing demand for natural resources, iron, food stuffs, fibers etc), and more importantly it gives its people a goal and a reason to go without (for the sake of thier fighting men) and also gives the government a wealth of cash by people investing in war bonds.
Sadly the modern era makes having a "decent" war more difficult for the US because they have become totally reliant on imported oil and computers/electronics. The excuse to go into the middle east and start a war there is a no-brainer given the middle easts current political crisis, so that fixes the oil problem nicely. The REAL problem is the computer electronics. The US has no real computer/electronics infrastructure left, the little that is there is owned by overseas companies (predominantly Japanese ). It takes years to build infrastructure to the standards needed to manufacture reliable electronics, and even if they did manage they dont have the human expertise to do the job.
So to have a war they need to make a deal with a foreign government, most likely Japan, for the electronics. Japan can say no, saying they disagree with the need for US involvment in the Middle East, and continue to buy US property at continually dropping prices until the government falls, the people riot, and Political instability and crime is completely out of control. Then they can step in , claim that "as they own the majority of the US" it is up to them to restore it. Therefore they will make it a prefecture of Japan, Support the people and bring it back under both political and criminal control. The US is now a Japanese state, subject to Japanese law and control, and owners of all the natural resources - as would be their right. All US citizens are now Japanese Citizens, if they choose to be or they are free to leave, and Japan now has a lot more room for its overpopulated home islands citizens to spread out.
Nice deal for Japan.
If Japan agreed to help and supply electronics to the US, perhaps they would only agree with provisos. Maybe the US would have to help Japan in their war with China and Korea, should that ever arise - hint hint wink wink. Maybe they need tax concessions on the raw materials that they buy from the US, and majorly reduced taxes on items imported into the US. Or any one of hundreds of other scenarios.
Again nice deal for Japan. I dont for one minute believe that this could happen, simply because the rest of the world also has interests in the USD , but more because people far more cunning and economically attuned than me would have already thought of the "potential" risks of allowing the US economy getting into that stage. The world will bolster the economy, even to their own detriment, to prevent these types of scenarios from occurring if at all possible.
The Japanese are generally a very honourable people and it was convienient to use them in these hypothetical scenarios because they have the required technology and their economy is very substantially connected to the US economy making them ideal political and economic "bad guys" in these scenarios. I dont believe that Japan would ever do these things, but they do have a saying
"Business is war"
Here Endth the lesson on why you dont have to worry about the USD falling and affecting your EU PED, if it ever got really bad then you would have far more to worry about than a silly game, even if you have heavily invested in it, because odds are that MA will just shut the servers because the have over relied on the stability of the USD and are broke so you would never get your money out anyway.
That and the "potential" bullets.
