They're mopping up what's left of them.

I'm coming out of the kitchen minutes later, he's mopping up the floors with them.

And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet.

If they remove the stimulus too soon by raising taxes, cutting spending, and mopping up the excess liquidity, the economy may fall back into recession and deflation. But if monetized fiscal deficits are allowed to run, the increase in long term yields will put a chokehold on growth.

And yet, when some psychologists interviewed hospital janitors to get a sense of what they thought their jobs were like, they encountered Mike, who told them about how he stopped mopping the floor because Mr. Jones was out of his bed getting a little exercise, trying to build up his strength, walking slowly up and down the hall.

The risk today is not imminent crisis, but rather that the capital flows arising from the global boom will not be well managed, leading to the buildup of vulnerabilities. So the danger is that, when the party ends and it is hard to know when that will be a lot of mopping up will need to be done.