Pronounce the word playpen In the financial sector, it's like shouting "Bomb!" inside an airplane, even if there isn't one. Nothing is more unsettling than going to withdraw your money and being told you can't. The truth is, we operate in a system based on trust. We all know that no institution can return money instantly if everyone demands it at once. And when this happens, the... playpenThis involves preventing or limiting withdrawals so that financial institutions don't run out of liquidity. Argentinians know this well, having experienced it in 2002; Cypriots in 2013; and Greeks in 2015.