Sentences with phrase «of dumb money»

So is it really true that the current inflow of money into Bitcoin is just a bunch of dumb money that could possibly vanish just as fast as it originally poured in?

But there's a lot of dumb money out there too.

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.

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.

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.»

Investment Strategist Matt Prusak, writing at Coindesk, has rounded up some novel examples of «dumb money» (his term) rushing into cryptocurrency.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

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.

There's a set of indexes put out by finance blog Sentiment Trader: They call them the Smart Money / Dumb Money Confidence indices.

«I've always told you that both dumb and dumber have been big contributors to the success of T - Mobile,» he said to «Mad Money» host Jim Cramer on Monday.

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.»

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?»»

They move piles of money around, their vast personal riches gained either through graft or dumb luck.

«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.

But the FBI's and CFTC's theory here is far more troubling: It suggests that existing algorithms are not just dumb enough to give spoofers some of their money, but dumb enough to give spoofers so much of their money that they destabilize the financial markets.

• The Quest for the Next Billion - Dollar Color (Bloomberg Businessweek) • The Dumb Money: The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid.

«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.»

But super angels — a clubby bunch ruled mainly by veterans of some of the Valley's most successful startups, including Ron Conway (PayPal), Jeff Clavier (Yahoo), and Mike Maples (Twitter)-- aren't dumb money.

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.

Authers goes on to quote Amin Rajan of U.K. consultancy Create, who argues, «The more money that goes into passive, the more they (index funds) will become dumb.»

In one of my favorite turns of phrase, Warren makes the point: «Paradoxically, when «dumb» money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.»

Of course, the AAII survey polls retail investors, or what some refer to as «dumb money.»

One of the things we all do at one time or another in life is to make a really dumb money decision.

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.

How dumb of Bill Gates (made way too much money - it should go to you..

Sam, followers of any religion who exert their power with nonprofit money and political power are dumb.

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.

The Strange Hill People invade and are too dumb to understand the concept of money.

meaning, the overall system itself is exploitative and needlessly punitive and just pretty shitty all around, so gaming that dumb system likely doesn't carry the same sort of stigma as, say, embezzling money from your company or taking bribes to vote on a piece of legislation.

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.

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.

Like Raheem Sterling dumb amounts of money.

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.

But easy to say negative things when your an addict of negative making negative statements we did nt win everything every year tottenham has been behind us till this year for 2o years mu went through 3 managers then got mourinho and he said hi i see you have billlions of dollars to spend why do nt you buy a team ill smile for three years make some dumb comments win a title chelsea not yet mu cause you spent more money than anyone else has except those city folks recently and play fall asleep football i mean wenger is great and haters gonna hate cause thats all they know to do they'll hate till we win the title then be happy for a day once its confirmed then say well we did nt win champions leauge or vice versa cause they re a negative addict they nead their dose to disassemble true success

madrid can care less about looking dumb and paying a grip of money for a player they just sold.

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).

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.

«Universities will need to charge fees of at least # 7,500 just to avoid losing money, so those that can't will be forced to cut quality and dumb - down.

Also, a person would have to be dumb not realize that smart phones and apps are a way for phone companies to squeeze A LOT more money out of the cell phone market — which was pretty much saturated until smart phones came along.

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

Another addition to the volume of unnecessary / dumb stuff I spend my money on.

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.

Directed by the Farrelly Brothers, the original Dumb and Dumber catapulted Jim Carrey to superstardom with the simple story of Lloyd (Carrey) and Harry (Daniels), best friends who decide to trek across country to return a suitcase of money to Lloyd's dream girl.

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.