The Politics of Economic Stupidity

It was stupid of me to make such a mistake.

I was very relieved when I heard that Rafsanjani was disqualified... Is it funny that they disqualified the chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. They are really stupid and this stupidity makes us happy and hopeful.

There are means to fight against what might be called today s growing democratic stupidity.

The amount of stupidity is to make a race that would close al the roads in such small country ChallengeBahrain Ahmed _BAR_ أحمد ( AhmedBucheery) December 6, 2014

In a hypersensitive reality, stupidity equals malice.

Now, after admonishing us for turning the temperature up too high, he would tell us that our question was completely stupid.

Has Israel lost the remainder of its wisdom? Are we witnessing a classic case of sheer political stupidity?

Einstein said that this was the definition of insanity to do the same things over and over again, hoping for a different outcome.

What Pakistan is doing vis a vis Syria is one of the dumbest things Pakistan has done in a long time, and that s really saying something.

Chris Anderson I probably understood two percent of that, but I still absolutely loved it. So I'm going to sound dumb.

But I am afraid that something more than stupidity (though less than plain evil) is at work here.

They are prone to attribute concerns about globalization to crass protectionist motives or ignorance, even when there are genuine ethical issues at stake.

The jet empties its load again, so my friend and I decide that it is stupid to continue walking towards the protest. We enter a nearby building, where we find a crowd of civilians, trembling. I envy their ability to be afraid.

They're way cuter than the one at ... you know Don't do that they're probably going to be just as dumb as the human one you already have.

How can 59 million people be so dumb, Britain's Daily Mail famously asked in a day after headline of the re election of George W. Bush in 2004.

It requires a large reserve of imagination, optimism, or plain stupidity to believe that one s fellow human beings will ever live beyond history and ideology.

He was one of six people who were invited to participate in this competition, after six previous firms struck out with things that were so stupid and banal that even the city of New York was forced to go, Oh, I'm really sorry, we screwed up.

Do the defects of democracy really mean, as Tocqueville claimed, that resigned pessimism is the only realistic but unsustainable path open to us? I don t think so.

Economists who adhere to rational expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

If so, then here s further proof that only peaceful and stable countries can afford the luxury of incompetent decision makers. In a hypersensitive reality, stupidity equals malice.

Can they really be so stupid as to get mixed up by these ratios? Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that they can, because even I, a professional economist, have occasionally had to stop myself from making exactly the same error.

But I am afraid that something more than stupidity (though less than plain evil) is at work here. Israel s current leaders, and a segment of Israeli society, are trapped in an idiosyncratic logic of fear and self centeredness.

After hearing provoking and insulting rap from both Egypt and Algeria attacking each other , Ahmed Mekki Egyptian Algerian Actor director rapper released this song which I believe should have been released earlier as it could help a lot in making both sides wake up from this stupidity.