Sentences with phrase «dumb money in»

Why do lawyers invest dumb money in marketing?

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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.
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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?
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