The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week

1. Who Says Americans No Longer Idolize Wall Street?

Most of the time, people come to Wall Street to find their fortune. But this week, they came for the fame.

See, for some reason we never bothered to figure out, the producers of the American Idol TV series decided to hold their New York-area open auditions for the show's second edition at the Regent Wall Street, a hotel standing a mere block away from the New York Stock Exchange. And the Five Dumbest Things Research Lab, for that matter.

So in a public spectacle of demand that would make a publicist for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD Quote) moist with envy, hopeful auditioners lined up as early as Tuesday for tryouts scheduled to start Thursday morning. ...