Why do lawyers invest
dumb money in marketing?
Not exact matches
The U.S. says the
money it is seeking to recover was gambled
in Las Vegas, used to buy hotels, apartments, a luxury yacht, a jet, diamond jewelry and art works and to finance Hollywood films including the «Wolf of Wall Street» and «
Dumb and
Dumber To.»
As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not
Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more
money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily
in terms of career progression and opportunities.
In a wildly
dumb piece that ran this week, the Toronto alt - weekly called Commander Chris Hadfield a PR - seeking glory hound and space exploration a waste of
money.
In fact, one study released by the Yale School of Management in 2008 went so far as to call retail investing the «dumb money.&raqu
In fact, one study released by the Yale School of Management
in 2008 went so far as to call retail investing the «dumb money.&raqu
in 2008 went so far as to call retail investing the «
dumb money.»
In a piece titled: «
Dumb Money: Exposing Silicon Valley's Stupidest Investments,» a writer for New York magazine snarked»... what kind of genius decided to throw $ 1.2 million at NaturallyCurly, the «leading social network and community for people with wavy, curly and kinky hair?»»
There was so much
dumb money coming
in and so few actually making
money that the suckers finally wised up.
«I did some
dumb things
in the beginning, fortunately with small sums of
money,» says Kirkpatrick.
There's nothing
dumb about keeping a limited pool of
money in checking — enough for emergencies, but not so much you lose out on important investments and savings.
There are lots of
dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon
in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more
dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital
money at a public relations firm.
Sure, this is relatively
dumb money, but that's where those angel and incubator relationships come
in: if startups increasingly feel they have the relationships and advice they need, then growth funding is basically a commodity, so why not take
dumb cheap
money sooner rather than later?
«Literally all the
money that went into this sector from 2010 to 2014 went
in from angels and [others], and now all of a sudden all these financial services companies have shown up... the
dumb money's shown up.»
We brought together our business editor Ben Popper, and our science editor, Liz Lopatto, to discuss what happens when you mix a flood of
dumb money eager to invest
in anything «disruptive» with life science companies that can actually impact our bodies and health.
John Cook, editor of Gawker, said he and Mr. Denton decided to restart Valleywag after seeing a return of excessive spending and obnoxious behavior
in the Valley and a «lot of indications of
dumb money,» like the $ 6 million given to Ms. Morin's start - up.
In the February 2009 version of their paper entitled «Not so
Dumb Money: The Prognostic Power of Investor Sentiment over Time», JÃ ¶ rdis Hengelbrock, Erik Theissen and Christian Westheide measure the predictive power of German and U.S. investor sentiment indicators and test whether the market responds immediately to the release of new sentiment data.
In one of my favorite turns of phrase, Warren makes the point: «Paradoxically, when «
dumb»
money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be
dumb.»
The fact that your average Chinese entrepreneur or executive had more
money than they could spend
in 12 lifetimes probably made a product as
dumb as the «Accumulator» easier to sell than it should have been.
One of the things we all do at one time or another
in life is to make a really
dumb money decision.
This is sad to say, but it is rare for a rally to end before the «
dumb money» shows up
in size.
The passive investors
in Druce's example appear to be
dumb money investors that simply want to time the market, with Buffett as their counterparty.
How about placing all of these ignorant hateful bigot preachers behind an electrical fence and wait for them to die off... they steal
money from
dumb parishioners, abuse the little boys
in the church, discriminate women, tell you how to vote for their own best interest, and worst of all spew prejudice, hateful ideology from the pulpit all
in the name of JESUS.
Those are pretty good odds (although,
in U.S. politics, it's not exactly a
dumb move to put your
money on the least likely possibility.)
Are the Arabs THAT
DUMB,
in your opinion, that they can not even create their own lobby considering the almost unlimited amount of
money they have?
In the end, a few religious people profit, receiving a great deal of
money and power, and everyone else is a
dumb schmuck.
lets all thank arsene for finally doing the right thing only time will tell but have we finally signed the DM we need STRONG MINDED NO HOLD BAR MIDFIELDER WE HAVE ALL CRAVED, but lets take it back we all know it will take 2 or 3 more like minded players to make us great again, he has tricked us all buy buying one superstar
in the last 3 windows ALEXIS, OZIL and CHEC great players but can't do it all on their own, spending huge amount of
money and saying we can buy the best players, on the surface this looks great we are buying top top players big prices but instead of spending his usual 50 mill on 2, 3, 4, 0r 5 players he has pulled the wool over are eyes with 1 superstar thinking the fans are that
dumb enough to believe it, infact he has never spent his budget only balanced on sales too purchases, i love arsenal but this summer i hope for more he needs to do that consistently through out the team spend the same amount on the team stop balancing the american owners, grow a pair say yes we will buy a top defender and a world class striker, stan we love arsenal please be one of us do whats needed then you will fell proud as we are and we will adore you for it.
Do you not realize how many
dumb / people who have poor
money management there are
in this world?
The board don t want to spend
money so they are not
in a hurry to bring a coach who may ask them to spend, so just accept the fact that Arsenal is on another 3 years of Wengering meaning how to make
money for a board and giving
dumb excuses to supporters.
Add to that 100 million gate revenue (if you have a season ticket which seems improbable you already paid the
money, paying and not using is sort of
dumb in my opinion but you are perfectly entitled to be such way) each game and there you go.
Piece by piece, the evidence mounts that Bill Polian's incredibly
dumb take that Jackson should convert to wide receiver
in the NFL is just that, an incredibly
dumb take which deserves nothing but our scorn (and not whatever ungodly amount of
money ESPN pays him to dole out such stupidity).
I remember vividly, being
dumb - struck one day when my father -
in - law asked me, «So Shirley, what ideas do you have for making
money?»
Someone who earns a lot of
money can generally be trusted to be competent to manage and invest it well, but we have no similar assurances that the recipient of the property will be particularly qualified to manage it
in the case of «
dumb money» received by lottery or accident of birth.
I suggest that labour - uncut, goes off, thinks up a few sensible policies, that are relevant to a government of 2020, maybe has a few ideas on the EU referendum, and accepts that the Corbyn fans of Students who read a article about how, capitalism is bad, because there was enough
money for everyone
in the 80's, and the Tories only got
in because people who voted for them were
dumb and read the Daily mail, because you're not going to convince anyone that labour Will be destroyed
in 2020 ′ because the Tories may implode over infighting like they did with Westland or ousting Thatcher, but win
in 87 ′ and 92 ′ anyway
«T he Netherlands is
dumbing down,» scream the newspaper headlines, nourishing the impression that highly qualified people can not be found for love nor
money in the lowlands.
In his desperation, Chris comes up with a plan so obvious only a
dumb, doomed idiot like him could think it up: He and his family will hire a killer to murder his out - of - the - picture mother and collect the insurance
money, which is intended for young, innocent Dottie.
In Hollywood, if you have a really
dumb idea for a movie and a lot of
money to make it, you call The Rock.
It is true that the real life David (Zach Galifianakis) was a bit of a dummy that robbed all of the
money under the impression that it was for his girlfriend (Kristen Wiig) when
in actuality he was handing the
money over to even
dumber people that immediately made a number of expensive and exotic purchases that surely raised suspicion, but pretty much all of what is going on here is blown up far too stupid.
Guests at the conference will include Bobby Farrelly (
Dumb &
Dumber, There's Something About Mary), Nicole Holofcener (Friends With
Money, Please Give), Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (Peep Show, Four Lions), Alice Lowe and Jacqueline Wright (Dead Happy, Hot Fuzz, Jackal Films) and Stephen Woolley (Made
In Dagenham; Perrier's Bounty).
Black Adder [4/1] Rowan Atkinson may be best known
in the States as Mr. Bean (or other
dumb - playing roles like Johnny English), but for my
money, his absolute best series is Black Adder, where he plays a series of British noblemen (each season is set
in a different century) with dry wit and an unfortunate lot of idiotic hangers - on.
The
dumb loser Frank Muzzy invites his alcoholic friend and gravedigger Eddie to raise some
money bootlegging US$ 250,000.00
in cigarettes for the powerful mobster Spider to Mexico.
If playing a
dumb character
in a
dumb movie that makes a lot of
money counts, that obviously, this will do it for her.
Kristen Wiig's protagonist is so insufferable that she gives Hannah Horvath a run for her
money, while the rest of the supporting characters (particularly Matt Dillon's live -
in boyfriend and Christopher Fitzgerald's crab - obsessed brother) are just plain
dumb.
Anyone who is tired of the
dumbing down of debate and those who make
money exploiting the divisions
in our country
in the name of delivering the «news» will love the tone of «The Newsroom.»
Reading Jim Cramer's Real
Money: Sane Investing
in an Insane World is like overhearing a barstool monologue by a streetwise MBA from the School of Hard Knocks: if you interrupt with a
dumb question, be prepared for a blunt answer that may blow your assumptions clear out of the proverbial water.
But with $ 500
in your pocket, you can still have a pretty good time
in Vegas... or you can be
dumb like me and blow that same
money with the click of a...
Smart beta is fine
in theory, but unless you pay attention to the pitfalls you could end up being the
dumb money.
In this book he attempts to explain why many investors are the
dumb money that clever investors profit from.
And if you aren't saving for the future — or worse, you're
in debt — you need to look for ways to save, not blow
money on
dumb crap.
After all, it would have been hard to lose
money in 2012, even if you made a few
dumb moves at the wrong time.
If it's mostly
dumb money then there are actually fewer opportunities
in the markets to take advantage of people.
In terms of the impact on market efficiency, I have begun to question my initial view that it was bad due to a question recently raised by @ 3rdmoment as to whether the marginal investor that has shifted from active to passive has been smart or
dumb money?