Cliff Asness Tweets: ‘I Am Not a Libertarian About Coronavirus’

  • AQR founder storms back to Twitter to plea for fiscal action
  • Wall Street calling for more drastic government response

Cliff Asness, co-founder and chief investment officer of AQR Capital Management LLC

Photographer: Misha Friedman/Bloomberg
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The coronavirus has dragged billionaire investor Cliff Asness back from his Twitter break -- and away from his libertarian orthodoxy.

The founder of AQR Capital Management LLC resurfaced on the social-media platform Sunday with a series of missives calling for fiscal intervention to relieve consumers and businesses hit by the deadly outbreak.