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Suffice it to say that former Minister Jalali defended Karzai's government as the only game in town, and I took an opposite view -- suggesting that we had overinvested in Karzai and Afghanistan, which was now trapping and containing American power rather than further leveraging it in the region.

Steve Clemons: Karzai, Iran, the US, and Bags of Cash

It shouldn't have been that surprising given how much they overinvested in real estate, but it is a potential shot across the bow for an even bigger sovereign bond problem or refinancing issue.

Investment Roundtable: Risks lurk, but recovery still on track

Investors sell themselves short by investing too much in the U.S.A. You're already overinvested here anyway—you have your life and career here.

How to Make Your 401(k) Plan Work Harder

Although it did end up becoming overinvested in to the point of being irrationally exuberent, capital was still available for other purposes such as the purchase of t-bills, even at lower rates of interest, and inflation ended up not being an issue, presumably because of increased efficiencies.

Improved Standard of Living, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

It was a growth model where we overinvested in the most unproductive form of capital, meaning housing.

Dr. Doom Has Some Good News

One of the reasons I think efforts to date haven't busted the lights out is that they were launched during the "bubble," and way overinvested and generally wasted a lot of money, souring investors.

Revolution in Academic Affairs?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

They are often highly overinvested in a single stock (usually the employer).

Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

How big this cost of "bad market prices" ends up being - and how much capital gains taxation contributes to bad prices - is impossible to measure but the hundreds of billions overinvested during the internet boom suggests that it should not be dismissed.

Economists' Voice on Fiscal Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Not all bankers overinvested in mortgages, but some got up to dance, believing that they would profit and the rest of us would pay to prevent failures.

Market Failure or Government Failure?

"I've been investing for 25 years and realized that our country was substantially overinvested in real estate and that we desperately needed to find a way to disinvest."

Couple Channel Olmsted to Create Land Bank