Best Finance Tweets of the Month: July 2015

July 8 was a scary day for the Twitterverse in the midst of an even scarier month.

It started when United Airlines grounded flights nationwide for nearly two hours, citing “network connectivity” issues. Hours later, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading, blaming technical problems. (It reopened before the market close.)

Where did the freaked-out public turn to make sense of it all? The Wall Street Journal, naturally — which subsequently went down, likely due to heavy traffic. The pseudonymous, Fight Club-channeling finance blog Zero Hedge suffered an outage of its own.

Elsewhere in July, uncertainty and long ATM lines reigned in Greece as the country fell behind on a payment to the International Monetary Fund and banks closed for much of the month, putting daily limits on cash withdrawals. The Shanghai composite index posted both huge drops and the biggest gain in years as the government intervened in an attempt to limit losses.

Meanwhile in Washington, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen testified in Congress, and volumes of comment letters on the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule proposal rolled in.

On General Economic Topics

This is how my desk looks after reading all those DOL #fiduciary comment letters this week… pic.twitter.com/fqMGlrG8Pf

— Megan Leonhardt (@Megan_Leonhardt) July 24, 2015

Advice to women? “Learn how to deal with Congressmen mansplain to you about the thing you have a degree in,” she did not say. #yellen

— David Gaffen (@davidgaffen) July 10, 2015

On Millennials

Finally. We need a bold plan on how to get rid of them. https://t.co/mDQt5qqqRm

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) July 8, 2015

Actually, every generation is excellent. Small differences in excellence are probably swamped by measurement error.

— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) July 10, 2015

On China and Greece

China has lost 15 Greeces in market cap in three weeks

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 8, 2015

If at first you don’t succeed, ban people from selling shares. http://t.co/08k5aiiTnB #China

— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) July 8, 2015

With respect to the Greece economy, the EU does seem to embrace the mantra of “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”