As the first snow of the season swirls around here in Washington, I’d like, on behalf of the Slips, to thank Anna Gelpern for her guest-blogging tour of duty. Anna introduced us to some of the international aspects of the financial crisis, and we should be forever greatful for her linguistic innovation: “illinquency”. Perhaps a financial institution will adopt as its motto the Gelpernian variation on the old Frankie Lymon doo-wop song: “I’m not a juvenile illinquent.”

Thanks Anna!