Inflation != value compared to the dollar Unlike other Latin American countries, Brazil's economy is mostly decoupled from the dollar -- people don't save in d

Inflation != value compared to the dollar Unlike other Latin American countries, Brazil's economy is mostly decoupled from the dollar -- people don't save in dollars, they save in reales. Prices are all in reales (including housing and cars, something that is usually in dollars in other countries), and most importantly, the national debt is in reales, and mostly internal. A rise in the price of the dollar is not necessarily harmful to the people living there if the prices don't rise the same way, and it can even be beneficial by making the exports more competitive in the world market.