The Year in Finance, in Twitter Hashtags

In 2012, journalists and investors took to Twitter to express their feelings and frustrations about the financial world. We wracked our brains to pick out some of the best, most hilarious hashtags of the year.

#FedValentines

It began with a silly tweet, and it turned into a meme. University of Michigan professor and economist Justin Wolfers started the hashtag #FedValentines on Feb. 10, just ahead of Valentines Day on Feb. 14, to joke about the monetary easing measures hed like to see Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve adopt.

Bernanke and his team put whats commonly called Operation Twistselling short-dated Treasurys to buy long-dated bonds and push down long-ter…
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