"I will come back just after a year, because I can't stay home for that long, " she added.

BBC: May's leap is just enough

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

WSJ: Heard on the Street: China's Developers Breathe Easier, For Now

And now we will wait until they tell us we can come home, and then we're going to go back to New Orleans and start our lives all over with whatever we've got left there.

NPR: Get Out of Town

Many workers returning home later this month for the annual end-of-Ramadan holiday will have no jobs to come back to.

ECONOMIST: And now the political fall-out