Who you calling a chump? For one angry tweeter, it s Neel Kashkari, the Goldman-Treasury-PIMCO golden boy who once oversaw the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). His take: Neel doesn t like entitlement spending, except when it s directed at the nation s risk-happy banks. But no matter -- if our glum Twitterati are right, we won t have money for anything, whether it be Grandma s groceries or Citigroup s (C) CDOs. Also on their minds this week: Good news for battery power, bad news for employment, and Tony Hayward s antlered successor.

Gross: There is always enough production to satisfy a growing population, but perhaps not enough new people to sustain growing production.
Bill Gross, bond fund manager at PIMCO.
Twitter.com/PIMCO

Chump Kashkari Rails Against Entitlement Spending After Providing Banks With $700 Billion Taxpayer Funded Blank Check
Editors of the finance blog, zerohedge.com, on Neel Kashkari, who formerly oversaw the TARP for the Treasury Dept.
Twitter.com/zerohedge

Why do you think CEOs aren't hiring yet? Answer is clear to me: no growth in US & too much political (cost) uncertai nty
Bill George, former CEO, Medtronic.
Twitter.com/Bill_George

CBO with understatement of day: Options for responding to a U.S. fiscal crisis would be limited and unattractive.
Paul Kedrosky, investor.
Twitter.com/pkedrosky

Business

Bain analysis shows electric vehicle battery prices could fall 60% by 2020 (usage & volumes increasing, tech improving)
Twitter feed of Bain Capital.
Twitter.com/BainAlerts

Goldman Sachs moves 50% of its "proprietary" stock-trading operations to asset management, getting around Volcker Rule.
Charlie Gasparino, Fox News commentator.
Twitter.com/CGasparino

The Markets

there has NEVER been a clear and LASTING correlation between US yields & $USDX
Ashraf Laidi, chief market strategist at online trading firm CMC Markets, on U.S. bond yields and the dollar index.
Twitter.com/alaidi

Conventional wisdom is that Carlyle must go public to keep pace w/ $BX, $KKR and (soon) $Apollo. Maybe the smart move is to stand apart.
Dan Primack, editor of private equity site, pehub.com.
Twitter.com/danprimack

The Lighter Side

BREAKING: BP Replaces Tony Hayward with Startled Deer
Andy Borowitz, satirist.
Twitter.com/BorowitzReport