June started with two escaped convicts on the run from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York and ended with Greece running out of time to make a payment to the International Monetary Fund.
One of the convicts, Richard Matt, was shot and killed by a Border Patrol unit on June 26, after 20 days on the outside. The other, David Sweat, was caught two days later. He was sent to another maximum security prison and, after a hearing, may face solitary confinement.
The fate of Greece, whose citizens voted in a referendum on Sunday to reject European bailout terms, is uncertain. While Greek Prime Minsister Alexis Tsipras, the European Central Bank and the as-of-Monday former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis all have Twitter accounts, most of the rest of us can do little more than report, retweet and speculate in — wait for it — Grimbo.
Meanwhile, Matt Levine sounded a little bummed, Josh Brown had a suggestion for where to find those escaped convicts and Bloomberg's Niki O'Callaghan found a very wonky groom's cake.
On General Economic Topics:
If your largely passive portfolio of ETFs beat its "benchmark" by 500bps last year I think you might need a new benchmark.
— James Osborne, CFP® (@BasonAsset) June 19, 2015
Turn paper into gold! (and then turn gold into less paper) pic.twitter.com/1y47ve1Yfl
— Irrelevant Investor (@michaelbatnick) June 10, 2015
Someone got a Bloomberg terminal "groom's cake" via @nikiocallaghan http://t.co/lJHXVXF14y @pinkcakebox pic.twitter.com/VTCQDo4KVU
— Rita Devlin Marier (@RitaDevlinM) June 18, 2015
If tech startups are overvalued, is that implicitly an argument that we need to see more tech startups launched to get supply/demand balance
— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) June 5, 2015
Be funnier if it weren't true. Beware the costs of an asset based fee & actively managed funds http://t.co/irC51tmMsd pic.twitter.com/Wp76GIJ1iB
— Justin Brand (@jusbrand) June 2, 2015
Those two escaped convicts still haven't seen after a whole week. They must be on Google Plus.
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) June 14, 2015
The ephemerality of good tweets is a feature, not a bug. It reminds us that life is fleeting and wit is worthless.
— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) June 3, 2015
Greek thought gave Germany idealist philosophy. Greek debt gave Germany materialist philosophy.
— the dead author (@thedeadauthor) June 22, 2015
In which foreign journalists queuing outside Greek banks waiting for a bank run outnumber actual Greek people withdrawing cash.
— Lady FOHF (@LadyFOHF) June 22, 2015
PR points at Greece, shouts 'look over there!' and runs in the opposite direction, defaulting as it does. https://t.co/AbuRAu9c0c
— Lady FOHF (@LadyFOHF) June 29, 2015
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