He's not even going to enter the lists and joust against those economists who think that returning to the gold standard is the dumbest idea since, well, New Coke.
The dumbest thing is … it doesn't even matter.
Many parents already blame the "dumbest generation" on too much gaming, always-on computing and illiterate texting.
General Tommy Franks describes him as the "dumbest fucking guy on the planet".Betraying the foundersBut, more important, neocons have been discredited for ideological reasons.
In recent commentary about it, you'll find it called "completely infuriating" and "draconian", "the dumbest rule ever", "stupid" and "bullshit".... Of course the ban is irritating.
And his statement presumably encompasses other regulators, including the Department of Justice and the SEC, which are part of the joint investigation into AIG .That is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen; it's not negotiation, it's capitulation," says Eugene Anderson, an attorney with Anderson Kill, a law firm that has frequently been in litigation with AIG over insurance claims.
Jack Welch, GE's former boss and a poster boy of the conservative school, said pursuing shareholder value as a strategy was "the dumbest idea ever".Defenders of the model might retort that a few bad apples don't spoil the bunch.
But perhaps the dumbest part of Ms Ros-Lehtinen's bill is that it would cut off US funding for UNRWA, the agency that administers Palestinian refugee camps in the occupied territories and neighbouring Arab countries, currently set at $230m for FY 2011.
He has since called the investment his "dumbest stock"; the textile business proved worthless and was eventually, rather painfully, closed.From dumb beginningsBy then, though, Berkshire Hathaway had come into its own as a vehicle whereby Mr Buffett could buy other companies, or stakes in them, initially in the insurance industry.
The second was that the range of mental powers between the cleverest and the dumbest was enormous—"reaching from one knows not what height, and descending to one can hardly say what depth".
We'd shown we're not the dumbest people on Earth and that we could make some money.
