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Squawk's Operation Twits... *Twist
CNBC's Squawk on the Street is not only your destination for market coverage live from the floor of the NYSE, but it is so much more than that. @CNBCSquawkSt poses questions each day on Twitter & airs the best responses. Today's Squawk on the Tweet has now been Storify'd.
- "Operation Twist" describes a monetary process where the Fed buys and sells short-term and long-term bonds in theory, to lower interest rates on 10-year bonds.
- The above sentence sounds so much cooler while playing the track below.
- Here were some of the responses that caught our eye:
@CNBCSquawkSt Operation Twist again! Like we did last summer! And The summer before that! and the summer before that!..- CNBC's Jane Wells weighed in:
- My tweet made air on @CNBCSquawkSt "Operation Wedgie"!! Why does this make me so happy? Sometimes I'm actually on air...
- To which Atlas responded:
@enlightndrogue @janewells @cnbcsquawkst Operation Wedgie is so right on. Operation Twist has always made me think of underwear- Here were some others:
@CNBCSquawkSt call it OPERATION TWIST AND SHOUT. Common on and work it on out, Bernanke!
@CNBCSquawkSt The Fed should REALLY call its Operation Twist plan: Operation QE Didn't Work So Lets Give This A Shot!
@CNBCSquawkSt Operation Mayhem - 1st rule of fight club is that you NEVER TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB ...- @CNBCSquawkSt Operation Squaredance ... the 'twist' was alittle too racey for the FED
@CNBCSquawkSt Operation We Have No New Ideas and This Is The Path of Least Resistance Plan- And there you have it, folks!
We do this ("Operation Storify") every day at the same time, so if you'd like in on the fun & possibly find your tweets shown on TV and in our stories, follow @CNBCSquawkSt, comment away & then twist your fingers.
