On Sept. 1, Scotland seemed on the brink of self-rule, Derek Jeter was ruling baseball and Bill Gross was the bond king reigning over PIMCO. A different era, it was.
Naturally, Twitterati worldwide watched as Scots held a referendum over whether to break free from the United Kingdom, voted to stay, and the leader of the independence movement, Alex Salmond, stepped down. (For their trouble, Scots won more autonomy from London.)
Gross, for his part, quit the bond firm he built as its execs were reportedly on the verge of firing him.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg reporter Jeanna Smialek celebrated a Federal Open Market Committee meeting with cupcakes, and Nouriel Roubini cooked up a Ponzi scheme.
On General Economic Topics:
#FOMC a bit like a teenager, promising to behave down the road: for now, dovish, but hawkish down the road. Yeah, right…
— Axel Merk (@AxelMerk) September 17, 2014
Monetary policy meets dessert: dot plot cupcakes by @catarinasaraiva and @AkiIto7 for #FOMC day. pic.twitter.com/PqQ9drGXb9
— Jeanna Smialek (@jeannasmialek) September 17, 2014
Best ponzi scheme: buy bitcoin with gold and gold with bitcoin…
— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) September 18, 2014
On the Scottish independence referendum:
The Empire prevails. pic.twitter.com/pmLME4LmAg
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 19, 2014
If #scotland had been smart they would have filed for IPO as a server farm not separation
— howardlindzon (@howardlindzon) September 19, 2014
#Scotland has changed its Facebook status from "married" to "it's complicated". #indyref pic.twitter.com/kP9Gg0dtNO
— EU birdie (@EUbirdie) September 18, 2014
Salmond swims upstream, exhausted, calls it quits.
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 19, 2014
On Bill Gross' Surprise PIMCO Departure:
Jeff Gundlach today pic.twitter.com/kIHbNSPbQj
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) September 26, 2014
What's really behind Bill Gross's departure from Pimco? They got too big for one another http://t.co/dZqdgQlzPw
— Michael Hiltzik (@hiltzikm) September 27, 2014
"50 ways to leave your lover" not me getting thrown out of @FoxBusiness its the song @PIMCO blasted when Gross split 2pm @MelissaAFrancis
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) September 29, 2014
Gross departs to run "unconstrained" Janus fund? Lack of constraints is what led to poor performance. @shefalianand http://t.co/5FrxtrmPB4
— Dougal Williams, CFA (@dougal_williams) September 26, 2014
Take back 5 yrs, same story. High-stakes, high-pay finance is abt "what have u done for me lately?" Gross, nothing. pic.twitter.com/H3FsqLXjy5
— Jesse Livermore (@Jesse_Livermore) September 30, 2014
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