President Taft emphasized loans and economic investment as the best way to spread American influence in a policy known as the dollar diplomacy. the dollar diplomacy was probably more effective, but it seemed weak to many people in contrast to Roosevelt's. Taft played to increase investment in Latin America; the dollar diplomacy was issued because his businesses wanted to increase their markets with their ability to make money by investing in other countries. It was not the US government investing it was American businesses investing and the impact of this is that the US is involved in Latin America's affairs more and the US is concerned about protecting its interests particularly economically. The colossal development of the fair exchange
