"The chickens are going to come home to roost in a monstrous way very soon, " he said.

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But years of torrid growth in executive pay have, in my opinion, finally come home to roost.

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Make sure they know that they do not act with impunity, and that the chickens will eventually come home to roost.

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But for now, investors are betting that a shift back toward easy money will postpone the day when those chickens come home to roost.

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In hindsight, this period of low interest rates, easy credit and loose regulation contributed to a series of dangerous bubbles that would come home to roost.

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Such absentee management can come home to roost, such as when Apple was called to task for egregious water pollution committed by its suppliers in China.

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Have the housing bust buzzards come home to roost?

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But then, somehow, it is graduation and that whole flock of chickens come home to roost and the industry I cover, the collections industry has to mop up the defaults and past-dues.

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But the political cover provided by General Petraeus, or at least by his CENTCOM staff, will surely come in handy for Team Obama when the chickens of the war that such policies will inevitably encourage come home to roost.

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The causes of 1990-91 and 2007-09 were similar: Real estate collapse, stock market turbulence, financial engineering turkeys come home to roost, loan failures, taxes going up, a Middle Eastern war, a spike in oil prices and everybody de-leveraging at once.

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