> buy the basket of goods or gold or anything that holds its value in dollar terms Also, even trading commodities futures, at the end of the day there are phys

> buy the basket of goods or gold or anything that holds its value in dollar terms Also, even trading commodities futures, at the end of the day there are physical commodity limits. Production, storage, transportation, consumption. You can't, for example, decide to invest the Chinese trade surplus in soybeans. Size mismatch. So you (at nation-scale) have to pick the least bad of the options available to you.