Tweets of the Week: 5.2.14

Employment Situation

No Dilemma at all

The Fed's dilemma: - Employment is growing - Unemployment falling. But they worrying about this 'cos of effects on wages, WHICH WERE FLAT.

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 2, 2014

Hey Joe, how do you really feel?

JOBS REPORT DEMOLISHES EXPECTATIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TUMBLES TO 6.3% http://t.co/JN4NEh8rKj

— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) May 2, 2014

They are crafting a response

Waiting for the policy bears who dismissed Q1 weather to claim weather rebound. #NFP

— Mark Dow (@mark_dow) May 2, 2014

Markets & Investing

Have you looked in your parents’ basements?

The US homeownership rate hit a 19-year low in the first quarter. Household formation up but the majority are renters pic.twitter.com/RNEzfDG8nD

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) April 29, 2014

Long term versus short term

@ritholtz once more with feeling pic.twitter.com/f6r1gTU9cd

— Jim OShaughnessy (@jposhaughnessy) May 2, 2014

Different accents?

Ireland ≠ Iceland RT @ReDefineEurope: #European countries drifting apart economically since 2007 pic.twitter.com/SDvQT5EdTz

— Constantin Gurdgiev (@GTCost) April 29, 2014

And still the Netherlands refuses to get its act together!

The share of the richest 1% is up in most #OECD countries over past 30yrs http://t.co/4o7FU750M3 #inequality pic.twitter.com/5ceONOI5gV

— OECD (@OECD) April 30, 2014

Pique Piketty?

Dow hits record high. Entire street collapses in the heart of Baltimore. Really, Piketty's just messing with us now.

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) April 30, 2014

Shocked to find gambling going on . . .

"Purchasers of the data…see the data before it appears on the consolidated tape" http://t.co/mmqRsnjswS

— Scott Patterson (@pattersonscott) April 30, 2014

Not exactly — those are mostly Guantanamo-ed numbers

China is set to become the world's largest economy by the end of the year, overtaking the US http://t.co/pfIQ2gEkjw pic.twitter.com/s1Xwp74e77

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) April 30, 2014

Random Items

Samsung version to follow

The future is amazing. This is what a holographic iPhone might look like: http://t.co/XWCgxoG85V pic.twitter.com/g8OaW9wd0z

— Co.Design (@FastCoDesign) May 2, 2014

Whats a Library?

Trinity College Library, Dublin, Ireland. pic.twitter.com/2dn5Eyz74d

— ClassicPics (@History_Pics) May 1, 2014

I thought it was more or less the same rich white guys

The people who regulate rich white guys in basketball are way tougher than the people who regulate rich white guys in banking.

— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) April 29, 2014

Funny that God Tweets but doesn’t do Facebook

Adam Silver just banned Donald Sterling for life. As for the afterlife, I’ll take it from there.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 29, 2014

We’re here all week, try the veal!

"Classically Cannabis: The High Note Series" courtesy of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. h/t @jledbetter http://t.co/ZT5611Yd1G

— jim impoco (@jimpoco) April 30, 2014