10 Best Finance Tweets of the Month: April

In an April that brought record-breaking cold to much of the U.S., the Twitterati hunkered down and finished their taxes, and the Federal Open Market Committee had a relatively uneventful meeting in which its tapering of asset purchases continued as scheduled.

Meanwhile, Stephen Colbert snarked on Sheryl Sandberg’s book, “Lean In,” reporter Kevin Roose found a group of regulators tougher than the SEC, and Stefan Cheplick and Bloomberg View publisher Tim O’Brien showed, in two separate charts, what market cycles really look like.

On General Economic Topics

Clicked on “help” button on website and under directions was a link that read “click here for help using help.”

— Bond Girl (@munilass) April 10, 2014

No matter the gen @sama: “i think the new generation is great, and the world is going in the right direction” -said no old person, ever”

— April Rudin (@TheRudinGroup) April 14, 2014

If @SherylSandberg really believes women should Lean In, why isn’t her entire book printed in italics?

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) April 10, 2014

Saying you’re having children for the tax breaks is like saying you want a mortgage for the interest deduction. http://t.co/IQYed6u4Fj

— Jason Hull (@hull_j) April 30, 2014

The people who regulate rich white guys in basketball are way tougher than the people who regulate rich white guys in banking.