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Saving the day?

It’s too much work, at any rate, for you and I to undertake in a Words in the News column.

And so here and now, let’s turn back and further examine the term itself – save the day.

You may understand “the day” as in the idiom “at the end of the day”, which means the end of any endeavor, or, simply, in the end. Regarding the Fed, for example, we can be sure that at the end of the day, when all is said and done, more money will be put into the system and before you know, the value of the money in your pocket will be even more diluted and sooner or later – hopefully sooner – you’ll understand that the global capitalist system works such wonders – I mean, in such a wondrous way – that eventually money and wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few, very few, people.

To be fair, rags-to-riches stories abound, or at least seem to abound thanks to present-day media hype, but these are exceptions to the rule (In other words, the Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerbergs are real, but number too few to give us an effective argument). Overall, and, as I’ve just said, at the end of the day and when all things are considered, said and done, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Anyways, for someone to “save the day” is for them to rescue a bad situation, preventing disastrous results from happening – when disasters have been widely expected to strike.

Where Federal Reserve is concerned, however, do not expect it to “save the day” any time soon – Not if America starts printing million-dollar notes – if the system is not fundamentally changed.