15 Best Finance Tweets of the Month: May

Tweet in May and go away? Hardly—unless, perhaps, you just walked across the graduation stage and are sick of hearing everyone’s life advice.

This past month, Fed watchers and the market took notice as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress. Speakers as diverse as FINRA CEO Richard Ketchum and Sierra Investment Management co-founder David Wright said their pieces on the spring conference circuit.

Meanwhile, Ian Bremmer made what sounded like a bad joke about Italy but is actually true; Carl Richards of Behavior Gap cracked wise on the endless flow of market predictions; and the Reformed Broker Josh Brown had one word to sum up Paul Krugman’s beef with Carmen Rinehart and Kenneth Rogoff.

Here are 15 of the best finance tweets of the month:

On General Economic Topics:

Sell in May, This Pullback’s Cray

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) May 22, 2013

Italy unemployment rate: 12%. But there’s a severe pizza-maker shortage–6k more needed–a manual job unattractive to Italians. #MammaMia

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 7, 2013

The Yahoo and #Tumblr deal proves one thing: you can get rich as hell by avoiding money valleywag.gawker.com/tumblr-and-yah…

— Valleywag (@Valleywag) May 20, 2013

I’m going to start writing things like “3.5 reasons the market is going to up and and down over the next 3.5 days”

— Carl Richards (@behaviorgap) May 22, 2013

How much is “a ton of money”? $1 Bills = $908,000, Quarters = $40,000, Pennies = $3,630 bit.ly/1127qqq

— Justin Smith CFA,CFP (@mrjustinwsmith) May 3, 2013

NERDFIGHT RT @gabbystern1: Reinhart & Rogoff excoriate @nytimeskrugman for ‘spectacularly uncivil behavior’ – on.wsj.com/113EN9p @wsj

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) May 26, 2013

From the Conference Circuit:

FINRA’s Ketchum: “restore investor confidence”…Best way to do this? Abolish #FINRA, which kept standards low for 7 decades

— Ron Rhoades,JD,CFP® (@140ltd) May 22, 2013

David Wright, Sierra Fund “Modern Portfolio Theory is dead”. Funny, thats what we use & have better returns than your funds #NAPFA2013

— Dennis Packard,CFP(@AlignUrWealth) May 9, 2013