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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
malinvest .
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Examples
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These lower interest rates affect the allocation of resources, causing capital to be malinvested throughout the economy.
Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis Ron Paul 2011
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Eventually, the economic boom created by the Fed's actions is found to be unsustainable, and the bust ensues as this malinvested capital manifests itself in a surplus of capital goods, inventory overhangs, etc.
Blame the Fed for the Financial Crisis Ron Paul 2011
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Those who still have jobs; malinvested capital has to be liquidated and everyone employed by it has to find a new occupation.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Was I Wrong, Or Did Something Change? 2009
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Perhaps it was even malinvested because the government did it: A lot of folks would argue that the water and powerr provided by the Hoover Dam have encouraged population growth in the southwest US that far exceeds the true carrying capacity of the land.
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With interest rates below the realwhich includes housing asset inflation rates, deposited money in saving instruments loses its purchasing power value its week that it is malinvested.
A Framing Puzzle, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Couldn't the argument be made that a stimulus could speed along the process of re-allocating the capital which was malinvested in housing?
Steve Pejovich Knows How to Ask the Right Questions? - The Austrian Economists 2008
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It is the fact that billions — make that trillions — of dollars were malinvested in markets where the increasing values could not be sustained.
Archive 2008-06-01 Patrick Vessey 2008
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It is the fact that billions — make that trillions — of dollars were malinvested in markets where the increasing values could not be sustained.
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In that way capital malinvested in unproductive projects would be freed up and this would allow new lending to be directed toward profitable ventures, paving the way, as it were, to a recovery.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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In redistributing wealth and putting it to malinvested ends that are not productive (IE: not profitable in a free market atmosphere), it is draining this nation of its potential ability to correct those imbalances and begin to align with reality and become prosperous again.
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