This final note on the way out, a warning to Congress from the guy who invented the term “fiscal cliff.”

Ben Bernanke gave a speech in New York today in which he said, among other things, that worries about said cliff are already starting to affect the economy and that — perhaps more troubling — the Fed can’t really do all that much about it.

Get your act together, in other words.

Congress, by the way? Home for Thanksgiving.