But so far it has done the opposite, drawing attention as never before to the Italian prime minister's idiosyncratic relationship with the courts and the media.
The Welsh government says to do so would force deeper cuts elsewhere and that it has done the best it can following big cuts to its own funding from the Treasury.
It has used massive infusions of liquidity into the financial system as it has done during the current crisis.
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The Library of Congress has the ability to grant exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which it has done in the past for smartphone users who wished to unlock their phones.
Regardless of how insignificant Norway is as a world player, it could distort the Western European perception of reality in South America in the same way it has done in the Middle East.
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By identifying these firms, the government could create an implicit guarantee that it will rush to the rescue of an ailing company, as it has done in the past year with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Citigroup, American International Group, General Motors and others.
Renewable energy would continue to get cheaper at roughly the rate that it has done in the past.
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And some markets may never see the personal computer dominate as it has done in the industrial nations.
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But the pall of an unsolved Greek mess will continue to hang over the euro zone, just as it has done for the past year.
If the economy was shrinking by more than it has done since the 1930s, where was all this money coming from that was going into consumer's pockets and wallets?
The market is just not skittering about like it has done in the last few years.
But the bond market can also work against it, as it has done over the past month.
Most at the summit agreed to support Mr Sakakibara's candidacy, though none did so officially, and the job will probably go to a European, as it has done in the past.
Martin Feldman at Merrill Lynch believes that, if enough developing countries (which now account for roughly 75% of the world's cigarette market) choose to enforce the treaty strongly, then cigarette consumption will eventually falter as it has done in the rich world.
And when sterling falls, as it has done, the cost of raw materials and overseas-manufactured components rises.
Will Microsoft beat off its assailants, as it has done in the past?
The FDA can challenge this choice, and does so on a case-by-case basis, as it has done in the past.
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But in the longer term, a livelier jobs market will improve Europe's growth prospects, just as it has done in the United States.
If Japan heads back into risk aversion (as it has done in the past), the yen would strengthen and equities weaken, another setback for the economy.
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Otherwise inflation will ravage the country just as it has done every other time the Fed has taken rates below inflation and left them there for a protracted period.
Home ownership has been an important vehicle in creating a solid white middle class, but it has not done the same for most black homeowners, because blacks and whites buy homes in very different neighborhoods.
Speaking in the wake of the Italian elections on Monday, the Dutch minister said he is "fairly confident" that Italy will find a solution to its political problems as it has done in the past.
Because it will get done -- as every leader in Congress has said, and as the President, the Vice President and others have said -- it will get done because it has to get done, because we are the United States of America and we don't default on our obligations.
It is true that in subsequent New Deal cases, the court vastly expanded Congress's power to regulate "interstate commerce, " although it has never done what the administration asks it to do now, namely authorize Congress to force individuals to engage in commerce.
Now as it happens, the Treasury has sent me the work it has done on this.
And it didn't crumble at the last minute, as it has done before, and as the Americans reportedly believed it would this time too.
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