Best Finance Tweets: August 2016

August was a great month to take a vacation, unless you’re a political campaign watcher. Or an ERISA lawyer.

Meanwhile on Twitter, Josh Brown shared his favorite anti-stage-fright trick, Matt Levine ribbed the Securities and Exchange Commission, and our own editor in chief Jamie Green overheard an interesting conversation on his daily commute.

On General Economic Topics:

Jobless claims & Philly #Fed releases confirm impending doom is still on summer vacation.

— Richard Bernstein (@RBAdvisors) August 18, 2016

industry parlance https://t.co/CSpiBeYfE9 pic.twitter.com/zgWu5yJO0Q

— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) August 16, 2016

The fake mayo company has raised $220M?? Disrupting condiments is capital intensive apparently. pic.twitter.com/Eo4Y00QQcv

— modest proposal (@modestproposal1) August 19, 2016

“When clients pay attention to noise, we call it dumb. When advisors do it, we call it research.”
- Carl Richards @behaviorgap

— Ritholtz Wealth (@RitholtzWealth) August 18, 2016

wait honestly how is there not a fintech called Ebenezer

— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) August 19, 2016

Q: How many miles would you have to drive until the risk of dying is the same as a non-stop flight?

A: 12#RiskManagement