Best Finance Tweets of the Month: January 2017

At the beginning of January, Barack Obama was president and the Dow Jones industrial average hadn’t dared venture over 20,000. It was a simpler time.

The world’s ultrawealthy and powerful made their annual pilgrimage to Davos for the World Economic Forum, and several Twitterites took to mocking them. Meanwhile, Michael Kitces had a really handy flowchart, Mark Dow was drinking and trading, and portfolio manager Evan Thurmond needs a new license plate.

On General Economic Topics:

Donald Trump names Rudy Giuliani as cyber security adviser. His first order of business is changing his email password from 9/11.

— Michael Blackman (@ParaComedian09) January 12, 2017

The replacement for Megyn Kelly’s show is ‘Burnin’ Books with Sarah Palin’

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) January 3, 2017

We don’t understand why record stores failed. They had record sales every year.

— SEC Fort Worth (@FortWorth_SEC) January 2, 2017

Our long national nightmare is over: We can now read the 2011 Federal Open Market Committee Transcripts. https://t.co/tGiUgVX3kn

— Neil Irwin (@Neil_Irwin) January 12, 2017

Hold my beer while I short some gold. $GC_F

— Dow (@mark_dow) January 11, 2017

Advisor’s Guide To DoL Fiduciary And The New Best Interests Contract (BIC) Requirement – https://t.co/zg2h384usZ pic.twitter.com/eOwkC3rpYf

— MichaelKitces (@MichaelKitces) January 11, 2017

Eurythmics Four Factor Authentication pic.twitter.com/m5f7r3MuEW

— Bad Dude (@brian_carnell) January 19, 2017

Brilliant@MarioGabelli, @BarbarianCap, DailyShot pic.twitter.com/UiF9pGxlo3

— Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) January 17, 2017

March 9th 2009: ‘Obama’s Radicalism is Killing the Dow’ (WSJ)

Here’s what happened next via @ritholtz:https://t.co/xQqbOpVyN9 pic.twitter.com/Fh46yOiWjB