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
